May 4, 2024

Thursday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 8/13/2015

› LinguaSys' tech tools acquired by cloud service company Aspect Software
Boca Raton-based LinguaSys has sold its technology assets to Aspect Software, a cloud-based consumer service company based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

› UF Employer Retreat Sheds Insight Into Hiring in Today’s Market
Hiring a member of the millennial generation is not as simple as placing an Internet ad, recruiters learned at an Employer Retreat at the University of Florida. And keeping the best ones might be even harder.

› Old Florida classic restaurant, revived
More than $1 million later, The Seafood Shack still feels the same to Diana Beck. She's been waiting tables and serving cocktails there almost as long as the fish joint and marina has been standing.

› Tampa Bay's housing market remains a bargain as nation's home prices climb
Tampa Bay's median home price enjoyed a bump to $175,000, a brisk 12.2 percent annual gain in the second quarter, but those figures reveal a housing market that remains sharply cheaper than many of its peer metro areas in Florida and the Southeast.

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