Skype, eBay make software deal EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. ...more

November 7, 2009

At least three out of five school board members support county officials reducing residential impact fees at the risk of the district losing more than $600,000. ...more

November 4, 2009

The number of buyers snapping up new homes dipped unexpectedly in September as the effects of a temporary tax credit for first-time owners started to wear off. ...more

October 29, 2009

Longtime Tampa contractor American Electrical Services has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ...more

September 24, 2009

Ah, the joys of living in Florida, our chosen Southern paradise. ...more

May 24, 2009

Lennar lost $155 million in the first quarter of 2009. ...more

March 30, 2009

Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens. ...more

March 8, 2009

The deserted houses and heartbroken homeowners in Florida's newest suburbs are the subject of a devastating article in the current New Yorker magazine. The selected snapshots show bleaker scenes in Hillsborough and Pasco counties than most of us who live here will recognize. ...more

February 15, 2009

If you felt financially squeezed in the last few months of 2008, you weren't the only one. On Friday, the Commerce Department announced that the economy shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the final quarter, the worst showing in a quarter-century. ...more

January 31, 2009

U.S. mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level in nearly four decades this week as the government stepped up efforts to revive the housing market. ...more

January 1, 2009