Wake up and good morning. A new web site that will sell area used cars at a discount from dealerships is coming to the Tampa Bay area. It's called Mojo Motors, which works with area dealers to list used autos "at the lowest price online." The... Read More
Here's a snapshot of what Media General's stock (MEG) is doing this morning since it was announced Warren Buffett was buying all of the company's newspapers for $142 million -- except for the Tampa Tribune. Details here and here. What will be its fate?... Read More
Wake up and good morning. Florida may be the fourth largest state in population but it ranks No. 2 in workplace discrimination complaints filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). So says new data for 2011 just released by the... Read More
Wake up and good morning. When the St. Joe Co., dominating real estate developer and land owner in the Florida Panhandle, decided to pull back and hibernate in the tough economy, nobody thought any mega-projects were forming in that part of the state. ... Read More
The annual shareholders meeting of JPMorgan Chase took place Tuesday morning at the bank's Treasury operations complex in Tampa, just off I-75 and Martin Luther King. Bank CEO Jamie Dimon managed to avoid the wrath of investors over the recen... Read More
Wake up and good morning. Time to get this issue more on the Tampa Bay business community's radar: Do the crime, poverty and generally rundown neighborhoods touching Fletcher and Fowler avenues in Tampa prevent the University of South Florida from beco... Read More
Wake up and good morning. PBSJ Corp. was a big, high-profile engineering and construction firm in Tampa Bay that ran into trouble and found itself sold for $280 million about a year ago. It now operates under the name of its new owner, U.K.-based ... Read More
Wake up and good morning. A curious, potentially disturbing piece of research is out from the Pew Research Center that finds, in effect, it matters where you live when it comes to achieving the American Dream. In more concrete terms, the research finds... Read More
Wake up and good morning. Bank of America, a dominant financial institution in Florida's banking market for many years, encountered major protests at its annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday in its headquarters town of Charlotte, N.C. Between 500 a... Read More
St. Petersburg's Rock 'n' Roll half marathon in February generated millions for the local economy. Read more here. (Photo: Tyler Tjomsland, Tampa Bay Times.) Wake up and good morning. Florida's going gaga over an apparent boom in tourism in an otherwi... Read More
