Florida Aviation Academy is offering an accelerated flight training program to provide students the opportunity to become licensed commercial pilots in only 16 weeks. (Read more)

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Moffitt Cancer Center researchers a training grant to develop a Fertility Reproduction and Cancer Training Institute for Oncology Nursing (FRACTION). (Read more)

Trojan Florida Powder Coating, whose parent company is based in Bay Shore, N.Y., is opening a facility in Manatee County and plans to hire 30 employees over three years. (Read more)

AT&T is hiring more than 200 employees in Central Florida, including 100 technicians to support its growing services that include AT&T U-verse TV, AT&T U-verse high speed internet and AT&T U-verse voice. (Read more)

Jacksonville distributor Champion Brands is adding 40,000 square feet of temperature-controlled warehouse at a price tag of $2 million. (Read more)

Four Florida schools placed in the top 20 of the Forbes' Top 100 Best Buy Colleges. The University of Florida placed 11th, Florida State University 13th, New College of Florida, 16th and the University of North Florida 19th. (Read more)

ESI Florida, a biotechnology investment company that plans to create 150 jobs, will lease 27,000 square feet for office and lab space in Jupiter. (Read more)

Darden Restaurants, Inc., the world's largest full-service restaurant company, is building Florida's largest private solar array in Orlando. (Read more)

Thousands of Florida transportation industry workers could hone their skills using more than $2.2 million worth of state-funded training opportunities under a new grant. (Read more)

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of the world's first pallet rental service to provide lightweight, 100 percent recyclable plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, has been named as one of the nation's top 75 Green Supply Chain Partners. (Read more)