Tag: Business

James Ramos, CEO of Ramos Design Build, announced today that he will collaborate with United Cities Productions to launch a series focused on the Tampa Bay design, architecture, construction, and real estate industries.

The Latest on Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Obama health care law looks like it will be open to all this week . The Senate version of the American Health Care Act, will be released sometime Thursday. The bill the GOP hopes is acceptable to their voters, but more importantly, for now they need 51 votes to get through the Senate so they can repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. (Obamacare)

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is increasingly claiming territory once held exclusively by department stores and it’s doing so again, essentially placing a dressing...

Google is trying to turn its search engine into an employment engine. Beginning Tuesday, job hunters will be able to go to Google and see help-wanted listings that its search engine collects across the internet. The results will aim to streamline such listings by eliminating duplicate jobs posted on different sites. Google will also show employer ratings from current and former workers, as well as typical commute times to job locations.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Wonder Woman" fell to second place in its third weekend in theaters, but it's still doing the heavy lifting for the otherwise lackluster summer box office.

Online retail giant Amazon is making a bold expansion into physical stores with a $13.7 billion deal to buy Whole Foods, setting the stage for radical retail experiments that could revolutionize how people buy groceries and everything else. Amazon could try to use automation and data analysis to draw more customers to stores while helping Whole Foods cut costs and perhaps prices. Meanwhile, the more than 460 Whole Foods stores in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. could be turned into distribution hubs — not just for delivering groceries but as pickup centers for online orders.

CANTONMENT, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a corrections officer died after falling ill on duty at a Florida jail.

OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) -- A 515-mile underground natural gas pipeline in Alabama, Georgia and Florida is expected to be fully operational by the end of the month.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Florida's three announced Democratic gubernatorial candidates agreed on most issues at a forum Saturday, from education to the economy to faith, but got their loudest cheers when they called for ending a 20-year string of Republican governors in 2018.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Pope Francis encouraged her to work to preserve the Paris climate accord despite the U.S. withdrawal and shared her aim to “bring down walls,” and not build them. Merkel and Francis met for about 40 minutes Saturday in the Apostolic Palace, focusing on the Group of 20 summit that Germany is hosting in Hamburg on July 7-8. The Vatican said the talks focused on the need for the international community to combat poverty, hunger, terrorism and climate change.