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  • Cable firms expand access to Wi-Fi

    Visitors to the Ballast Point pier can fish, watch the pelicans dive and, now, use free Wi-Fi to check email or post to Facebook — if they're Bright House customers.

  • Panera adds drive-thru to its menu

    A busy home-care nurse, Kim Chitty normally makes time for a stop at Panera Bread to munch pastries and work on medical charts.

  • Firefighters to get new home

    Construction of a new $1.4 million Pasco County fire station in San Antonio soon will be under way, a bit of progress that brings excitement tinged with melancholy to those in the city's downtown.

  • Urban farm is growing from grant-based to self-supporting

    It has no street address, no sign pointing the way. Around here, it's known simply as "the farm."

  • Lawyer referral services targeted by Florida Bar

    Now operating in Florida, Kentucky and Minnesota, the 1-800-Ask-Gary hotline may find its business model banned in its home state.

  • Zurich-Tampa route takes off from TIAView Video

    Joe Lopano landed the top job at Tampa International Airport with a mandate to increase international flights, a longtime sore spot because Tampa has about three dozen weekly international flights while Orlando boasts more than 200.

  • Fish farmer, neighbor in dispute as ponds dryView Video

    John Buzbee has raised tropical fish on his family farm since the 1970s, producing thousands a month that end up in stores like Walmart and Petsmart.

  • Retail beef, chicken, pork prices still climbing

    The money you're saving on gasoline may go toward buying steaks, ribs and chicken for the barbecue.

  • 34.8 million traveling this holiday weekend

    More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices.

  • Typical CEO made $9.6 million last year

    Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.

  • Apple CEO Cook gives up $75M in stock dividends

    Apple CEO Tim Cook is giving up $75 million in dividends on restricted stock that the company is awarding to all of its employees.

  • Facebook launches iPhone camera app

    Facebook's rocky initial public offering hasn't stopped life at the world's biggest online social network. Today, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone.

  • Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs

    DALLAS — Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months, touted as a solution to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them.

  • Mise en Place opens wine bar at Tampa airport

    Tampa International Airport's ongoing efforts to lure local establishments continues with the addition of First Flight, a wine bar operated by Mise en Place.

  • Times-Picayune to cut publication to 3 days a week

    The Times-Picayune, one of the nation's oldest newspapers, is dropping its daily circulation after 175 years and plans to issue three printed editions a week starting in the fall. With the change, the newspaper would become the largest metro newspaper in the nation to drop daily circulation in this digital age.

  • Yahoo seeks to shake up search, Web browsing

    Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis."

  • Time Warner Cable CEO: "There are too many networks"

    Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt says not everything on cable is worth watching.

  • Business Briefs for May 24

    Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 27,000 jobs

  • Owners of Pasco homes on landfill worry about insuranceView Video

    A home buyer was turned down for homeowner's insurance in Suncoast Meadows because the house is near a former landfill.

  • Taco Bus to open new location near USF in June

    A sign announcing the upcoming arrival of a Taco Bus recently appeared in a window at the site of a former Taqueria Monterrey.

  • Five charged in undercover sting into unlicensed contractors

    An undercover investigation into unlicensed contractors resulted in the arrests of five men who posed online as licensed electricians, Tampa police said.

  • County has money to help businesses hire new employees

    The Hillsborough County Job Creation Program still has $150,000 in wage reimbursement funds available for small businesses to add employees. To qualify, businesses must be for-profit, independently owned, located in the county and be at least two years old; have 10 or fewer employees; hire up to three new employees who are not related to the owner and show a net increase in positions.

  • SpaceX private supply ship rockets toward space station

    Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular, middle-of-the-night blastoff.

  • SEC reviewing JPMorgan's filings after $2 billion loss

    Federal regulators are reviewing what JPMorgan Chase told investors about its finances and the risks it took weeks before suffering a multibillion-dollar trading loss.

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