Tampa, Florida
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Tampa is a city in Hillsborogh County Florida is a part of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan area, most commonly referred to as the "Tampa Bay area". The four-county area is composed of roughly 2.6 million residents, making it the second largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the state behind Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, the third largest in the Southeastern United States, and the twelfth largest DMA Market in the United States.
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Local economy
Like much of Florida, Tampa's economy is heavily based on services and tourism. Many wealthy people have winter houses here, and the upscale Tampa Palms neighborhood is a desirable destination for retired professional athletes. Many corporations, such as large banks and telecommunications companies, maintain regional offices in Tampa, and the city is an extremely popular location for call centers.
Tampa's port is now the seventh largest in the nation and Florida’s largest tonnage port, handling nearly half of all seaborne commerce that passes through the state.
Recent Tampa business news
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- Brown & Brown, Inc. Announces 6.2% Increase in Total Revenues and...
- DAYTONA BEACH, FL and TAMPA, FL -- -- 02/03/12 -- Brown & Brown, Inc. today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011.
- Bankers, Tampa small business owners talk credit at upcoming workshop
- Representatives of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
- Blog Post: February 2012 Recommendations
- Each month, your first-Friday delivery of the U.S. partner newsletter, emailed to you as a benefit of your Microsoft Partner Network membership, contains a list of our recommendations for U.S. SMB partners located in the East Region.
- National unemployment number much prettier than Miami-Dade's
- Florida's commercial banks lost a combined $175 million in 2011, according to a new report issued by Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund.
- Merger bolsters G Fried Flooring America
- As part of Flooring America's "Shining Stars" group of top tier performers, Rufus Ashby and Tom Garner frequently spent time together in meetings even though Ashby owned Flooring America in the Tampa/Sarasota area and Garner is the chief executive officer of Sergenian's Floor Coverings in Madison, Wis.
- Treasure hunter claims to have found British WWII wreck containing platinum worth $3bn
- A treasure hunter claims to have located the wreck of a bombed British merchant ship containing platinum bars worth $3billion. If Greg Brooks, of Sub Sea Research in Gorham, Maine, is right, the ship, which was torpedoed by the Germans in World War II, could be one of the richest sunken treasures ever discovered.
- Treasure hunter says he found $3B WWII wreck
- A treasure hunter said Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of But an attorney for the British government expressed doubt the vessel was carrying platinum.
- Man claims discovery of ship with $3B in platinum
- A treasure hunter said Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion.
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