Jabil Circuit Inc. swung to a profit in the company's first fiscal quarter, and company executives suggested they have "a good pipeline of new business." St. Petersburg-based Jabil is one of the world's largest electronics makers, producing devices on behalf of companies such as Nokia and Hewlett-Packard. ...more

December 22, 2009

Jabil Circuit Inc. swung to a profit in the company's first fiscal quarter. ...more

December 21, 2009

USAA's topsy-turvy growth in Tampa is taking another turn. The financial services company plans on adding 200 people to the ranks of 1,772 workers in Tampa, adding a banking and investment operation to the company's insurance work. ...more

October 20, 2009

I see the do-gooders struck again. They managed to tax a manufacturer of a legal product out of business and put almost 500 people out of work. ...more

June 26, 2009

Chrysler LLC is planning on resuming production at the majority of its plants by the last week of June, said Steven Landry, an executive vice president at the automaker. ...more

June 3, 2009

AIG, better known as American International Group, is an insurance company that lost $61.7 billion dollars in the fourth quarter of 2008 — a new record — then got $170 billion dollars of taxpayer money to save it from going bankrupt. ...more

March 20, 2009

While Democrats in Congress look to recoup $165 million in bonus money paid to executives at American International Group Inc., three local bankers chimed in on what they considered a perfect storm of rampant greed on Wall Street and negligence on Capitol Hill. ...more

March 18, 2009

For the most part it was an awful week. Even in the sports world, where a lot of us go to hide from the daily drumbeat of bad news, we had to deal with the likes of Michael Phelps and Alex Rodriquez, two of sport's more visible figures and bigger disappointments. ...more

February 13, 2009

Colonel Sanders' handwritten recipe for fried chicken was back in its Kentucky home Tuesday after five months in hiding while KFC upgraded security around its top corporate secret. ...more

February 11, 2009

The interim manager of the BayWalk shopping and entertainment complex in St. Petersburg was arrested today, accused of taking more than $170,000 from a real estate company where he used to work. Howard Rosenthal, 53, of 527 Harbor Groves Circle, Safety Harbor, was charged with one count of felony grand theft. He took over as BayWalk interim manager this week; none of the charges are connected to his work at BayWalk. ...more

January 15, 2009