May 3, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 8/20/2015

› Hack to Jacksonville-based Web.com compromises credit card information of 93,000 customers
Jacksonville-based Web.com has reported a breach in one of its computer systems that may have compromised the credit card information of approximately 93,000 customers, according to a filing the company has made to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

› Betting on Vets
The unemployment rate for U.S. military veterans is higher than most other demographics, a nugget at which many shake their heads. But that gap is an opportunity at WilsonHCG.

› The top 10 US cities for small businesses
Thumbtack, an online marketplace that connects consumers with a range professionals form chimney sweeps to dog walkers, surveyed almost 18,000 small business in 95 cities across all 50 states and ranked the top cities for small businesses.

› Marijuana program draws 42 doctors statewide
In the ten months since Florida began preparing physicians to qualify patients for medical marijuana, only 42, including eight in Central Florida, have signed up to do so.

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