Moffitt Cancer Center and Central Florida Health Alliance jointly announce today that they are partnering to provide world-class cancer care closer to home. The partnership will deliver state-of-the-art cancer care in two new facilities to be built on the campuses of Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System. (Read more)

JSKaraoke, the parent company of Emerson Karaoke, IXT Systems, and Forever Hits, is expanding in Pinellas County. Collectively, these companies form one of the largest manufacturers, importers and exporters of karaoke equipment and music in the world. (Read more)

The Business Development Board of Martin County is pleased to announce the expansion of UCT Coatings, Inc. The company is hiring 38 new employees and expanding into a 45,000 square foot space in Sands Commerce Center of 42nd Avenue in Palm City. (Read more)

AirTran Airways unveiled its new state-of-the-art System Operations Control Center and announced plans to open a pilot base in Orlando. The base will initially employ 100 pilots, including a chief pilot. (Read more)

Port Canaveral officials have announced an agreement with a new cargo operations company that eventually will bring in more than a million dollars in annual revenue to the port and possibly upwards of 500 jobs. (Read more)

The University of North Florida's School of Engineering has received a combined $9.4 million in federal contracts from the Army and Department of Energy for a fuel cell research project - the highest-funded project in the school's history. The research has two goals: develop and then commercialize a direct methanol fuel cell power source for two laptops - one for American soldiers, the other for ordinary consumers. (Read more)

Florida hospitals earned top marks in their specialties on U.S. News & World Report's recent rankings of America's Best Hospitals. (Read more)

Siemens Energy is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant at the Tampa Electric Big Bend Station to demonstrate POSTCAP technology for capturing carbon gas. The primary goal of this project will be to reduce the large amounts of energy traditionally needed to operate carbon capture technologies. (Read more)

The Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division has conducted the first successful flight of an Airborne Laser Mine Detection System. This cutting-edge application that revolutionizes the Navy's ability to conduct Airborne Mine Countermeasures was developed by a U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman team. (Read more)

Insurer Universal North America says it will add about 80 jobs in the next year at its U.S. headquarters in Sarasota County. Universal, which is on a pace to collect about $285 million in premiums this year, says it is ready to start the next phase of growth in its U.S. strategy. (Read more)

Clean and Green Enterprises, Inc., a renewable energy company, has established a research and development operation in Melbourne, Florida. Clean and Green Enterprises, Inc. is a clean energy company with proprietary technology for harnessing electricity from ocean waves, and is directly involved in efforts to create jobs in the emerging green economy. (Read more)

Fast-growing, Orlando-headquartered Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) has announced plans to expand its operations into a larger 23,000 sf facility in downtown Orlando. With this expansion, the company also intends to hire 75 new employees over the next three years, nearly doubling its local employment. (Read more)

Florida has been ranked number one in the nation for its workforce on CNBC's fourth annual America's Top States for Business rankings. The workforce rankings in CNBC's annual study are based on several indicators, including the education level of the workforce, the number of available workers, union membership and the relative success of each state's worker training programs in placing participants in jobs. (Read more)

Oldsmar is about to become the headquarters of a medical manufacturing company, which will bring about 100 high-wage jobs to the area. MicroLumen, whose medical tubing products are used in catheters, stents and other devices, is building a 60,000-square-foot facility at the Brooker Creek Corporate Center. (Read more)

Prommis Solutions, LLC, is expanding its current operating footprint to include two new Florida offices-one in Orlando, and the other in Ft. Lauderdale. The company, a leading national provider of processing solutions to the mortgage banking industry, now maintains 16 office locations nationwide. (Read more)

Calhoun County officially opens a new paved runway that will accommodate larger planes and offer a new option for area pilots. (Read more)

Locklin Tech is offering a new program to meet a growing demand for pharmacy technicians and to give students a foot in the door in the health care profession. The 36-week program costs $2,600 for adults and is free for high school students. (Read more)

Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon company, currently has over 450 employees at its Lake Mary facility and has announced plans to add 300 new jobs over the next three years. The company will also add an additional 23, 000 square feet to their existing footprint in Colonial TownPark with an expected capital investment of $4.5 million. (Read more)

The Florida Venture Forum is now calling for outstanding early stage private companies in all industries from the state of Florida to apply to be presenters at its Third Annual Early Stage Venture Capital Conference, to be held Sept. 15, 2010 at the Omni Orlando Resort in ChampionsGate, Fl. (Read more)

Innovative hemophilia research from the UCF College of Medicine earned one of only five Special Project Awards by Germany's Bayer Healthcare. Dr. Henry Daniell and his team are working to prevent potentially deadly reactions to hemophilia treatments by helping patients develop a tolerance to them with the use of genetically modified plants. Read more

FDi Magazine has ranked Jacksonville's Foreign Trade Zone the best port zone in the United States and the third best in the world. Shanghai, China and Tangier, Morocco ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively. (Read more)

BlueChip Energy, a Florida-based provider of complete solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, government and utility applications, has started stage one of the Rinehart Solar Farm, a 10 MW utility-scale solar PV facility in Central Florida. This facility will have a total capacity of 10 megawatts and an annual generation of approximately 15,000,000 kilowatt-hours. (Read more)

USF Health won key funding and can now move forward with plans to establish its new School of Pharmacy, which will begin enrolling students in August 2011. The new program will emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration, so that pharmacy students can learn from faculty and other resources in the USF Colleges of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. (Read more)

Valencia Community College was selected by the Transportation Security Administration as one of 32 colleges nationally picked for an educational partnership. This positions the Orlando college to take a leading role in homeland security. (Read more)

Medical device manufacturer Oscor, Inc. will bring 70 new high-wage jobs to Pinellas County. Oscor has been expanding its research and development efforts and developing innovative technologies steadily over the past three years. (Read more)

Micro Matic, a leading Danish manufacturer of beverage dispensing equipment, is expanding in Brooksville, Florida. The facility expansion will provide space for a consolidation of operations from the west coast. (Read more)

Convergys Corp. is adding more than 300 full-time positions at its Lake Mary contact center to provide customer service and sales support for its clients in the telecommunications and entertainment industries. (Read more)