Charter deal for Time Warner Cable will shift TV industry

Charter Communications has struck a deal to buy Time Warner Cable, an acquisition that would create a powerhouse in the consolidating American cable and broadband industry. Charter announced today Tuesday a $55 billion deal for its larger rival and a $10 billion takeover of a smaller competitor, Bright House Networks. Full statement from Charter is here.

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Summer to sizzle with leisure and group business

The hotter and wetter months of June, July and August, aren't as packed with tourists as the peak December-to-April season, but that's changing. That's partly due to more leisure and corporate groups taking advantage of lower off-season room rates and other perks. [Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

The importance of keeping young doctors

Keeping doctors local has tremendous economic benefit. According to an independent study conducted by the research firm IMS Health, every physician supports 12.26 local jobs in addition to their own. [Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune]

Businesses on both sides of the Florida Straits get to know each other

There’s jockeying and movement on both sides of the Florida Straits as everyone from Cuba’s entrepreneurs to large American corporations try to get to know each other and scope out business opportunities. [Source: Miami Herald]

Hurricane season: Amid threat of storms, doubt over property insurers

Reviving a competitive market for private insurance remains, after all these years, the goal in a state that suffered Hurricane Andrew in 1992. That devastation sent major insurance companies fleeing the state. [Source: Tampa Bay Times]

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› Black Hawk business takes off for Central Florida company [Orlando Sentinel]
What began two decades ago as a little whirlybird company in Central Florida is on the way to becoming a service and certification agent for one of the most iconic crafts in the sky: the Army's Black Hawk.

› Once vilified, BP now getting credit for gulf tourism boom [Miami Herald]
With the Memorial Day holiday here, fallout from the oil spill that left Gulf Coast beaches smeared with gooey tar balls and scared away visitors in 2010 is being credited, oddly, with something no one imagined back then: An increase in tourism in the region.

› Some South Florida workers still feel left out of recovery [Miami Herald]
Cully Waggoner makes $10 an hour answering calls from customers who need their air-conditioners and refrigerators repaired. Before the recession, he was pulling in $40,000 to $50,000 a year selling computer hardware.

› Changes in store at Miami Fashion Week [Miami Herald]
Miami Fashion Week is about to get a makeover. The founder of the annual event, Beth Sobol, and her partner in the venture sold the company behind the event to a group of European investors who plan a global expansion of the brand.

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› Youthful Jacksonville Armada front office targeting millennial demographic [Florida Times-Union]
Steve Livingstone, the CEO and president of Jacksonville’s newest professional sports franchise, said he’s experienced a range of emotions to get the team and business off the ground. But it’s working in his view.

› How Stonegate Bank helped clear the way to reopen Cuba [South Florida Sun-Sentinel]
hen Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced in December that their nations would restore relations after more than half a century, neither side guessed the biggest obstacle to reopening the Cuban embassy in Washington would be finding a bank willing to do business with Cuba.

› Walt Disney World's city residents help keep resort running [Orlando Sentinel]
Forty-four residents handpicked by Disney live in two tiny gated mobile-home parks tucked away on the sprawling resort. There, they become cogs in the governmental machinery that allows Disney to control its own services such as planning, building codes and firefighting.

› Is Tampa Bay heading for another real estate bubble? [Tampa Bay Times]
Ask Realtors about Tampa Bay's housing market these days and you're apt to hear words like fantastic and tremendous. What you probably won't hear, except in a whispered voice, is: bubble.