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What you need to know about Florida today
Florida's unemployment rate drops for fourth straight month
How low can Florida's unemployment go? Pretty low, according to the state's latest unemployment numbers. The Sunshine State's unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent for June, down from 4.3 percent in May, state officials said Friday morning. More from the Tampa Bay Times.
How Florida explains our polarized politics
The national trends that have divided the country almost evenly between Democrats and Republicans are on display in microcosm in Florida, where convergent tides of migration sweep from the Panhandle to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts and down to South Beach. More from The Hill.
Student researcher targets cancer with virus, earning support of Central Florida nonprofit
Candace Fox laughed easily and smiled often Thursday at the University of Central Florida’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences. But the 24-year-old Ph.D. candidate’s thesis research is serious business: she’s using a modified parainfluenza virus to target and help kill cancer cells. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
South Florida hotels struggled in 2016. Now it seems they are finally on the mend
An overall bump in performance is another positive sign that hotels are on the mend after a challenging 2016 marred by the Zika virus, a surge in new hotel rooms, construction at the Miami Beach Convention Center and the growth of the short-term rental industry. More from the Miami Herald.
Jacksonville’s Acosta marketing and packaging firm acquires Ohio-based company
Acosta Sales and Marketing, which specializes in consumer packaging and goods among other services, announced this week it is acquiring ActionLink which also provides marketing and sales services for retailers. More from the Florida Times-Union.
Sponsored Report
Bridging Innovation and Industry
There are two sides to technology: ideation and implementation. Eliminating the hurdles between bold ideas and real-world solutions just became a lot easier thanks to BRIDG — Bridging the Innovation Development Gap — and the opening of the Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center at NeoCity, located in Kissimmee, Florida.
Business Profile
ReliaQuest
Amid a blitz of new hires at the company he founded, ReliaQuest, Tampa technology and cybersecurity executive Brian Murphy likens training the plethora of new people to a condiment. “When I worked at Publix when I was 16, they didn’t train you to tell customers the ketchup is in aisle six,” says Murphy. “You walk them back to the aisle and show them.” Show them is a key theme at ReliaQuest.
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