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Blueware Inc., a tech company that has made inroads in the healthcare industry, will move from Michigan to Melbourne, bringing 190 jobs to the state. (Read more)


Google Inc.'s top technology guru expects Central Florida's military-oriented simulation industry to be at the forefront of the country's next wave of advances in training-and-education technologies. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:12 PM

MindTree Limited, a global IT and Product Engineering Services Company, plans to open its first major U.S. Development Center in Gainesville. MindTree's expansion of its U.S. presence is expected to bring some 400 new jobs to the Gainesville area beginning late this summer. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:33 PM

ThePeoplesVote.com, an internet-based, non partisan public policy service provider, has selected Palm Bay to begin its start-up operation. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:39 PM

Justin Wetherill launched uBreakiFix Co. three years ago and now has 21 stores nationwide, 2011 revenue of $8.5 million and 42 new stores planned for 2012. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:35 PM

Modernizing Medicine, Inc., a software company that delivers IT solutions for small and medium-sized specialty medical practices, plans to more than double its space and move to a new facility at the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:31 PM

Seaborn Networks LLC, a Boston company, plans to lay an underwater fiber optic cable stretching more than 6,000 miles from South Florida to Brazil that will create up to 50 jobs at the end of the line in Miami. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:22 PM

Technology companies sometimes complain about the difficulty of finding skilled workers, but Citrix Systems and Broward College have taken a big step to deal with the issue. The college and the region's largest software company are creating the Citrix IT Academy at Broward College's North Campus in Coconut Creek. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:27 PM

AT&T invested nearly $2.8 billion in its Florida wireless and wireline networks from 2009 through 2011 with a focus on improving the company's mobile broadband coverage and overall performance of its networks. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:46 PM

The Princeton Review has named the University of Central Florida and Full Sail University to its list of America’s Top Schools to Study Video Game Design. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:34 PM

Web.com plans to create more than 200 new jobs during the next two years, with a majority of the new positions slated for its Jacksonville headquarters. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 4:24 PM

Two years after selling The Digital Animation & Visual Effects School, founders Jeff and Anne Scheetz are moving full speed ahead with a new boutique animation studio on Sand Lake Road called Monkey Chow Productions. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 8:40 PM

Meru Networks, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, Calif., plans to open a Tampa office and create 60 local sales jobs. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:18 PM

HBO Latin America is growing its Miami-Dade County presence, expecting to add 101 jobs over the next two years and soon to relocate to a new headquarters in double its current space. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 1:50 PM

Clare Controls Inc., which provides home automation systems for the custom home audio/video industry, has launched in Manatee County and plans to add 62 employees over the next four years. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:34 PM

Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and Miami all rank among America's Best Cities for Technology Jobs. (more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:14 PM

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, today joined with state and regional economic development leaders to announce plans to create a new $100 million high-tech center on its Palm Bay campus that will become the centerpiece for some of the company's most advanced engineering efforts. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:01 PM

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 9:05 PM

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:17 PM

Escent Technologies/Escent LifeSciences, LLC, a company that utilizes a patented spectroscopy technology, is expanding into Florida and creating 50 Palm Bay jobs. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:13 PM

Gov. Rick Scott and Time Warner CFO John Martin announced that the media company will create 500 jobs for a new shared resource center in Hillsborough County over five years. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:25 PM

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)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:24 PM

The game has sold nearly 4,000 downloads into its third week through Apple's App Store and has also received good reviews on several gaming blogs. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:05 PM

Ybor City-based technology company Savtira Corp. is quadrupling its employees with plans to hire 265 new workers with wages averaging more than $81,000. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:53 PM

Broward County's cloud technology/mobile communications cluster and experienced workforce have attracted Alliance Eyecast's $25.5 million expansion and 100 new technology jobs. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 1:56 PM

Orlando's newest digital media and game development company, Row Sham Bow Inc., will hire 60 people during the next three years for its game development studio focusing on mobile and social media games. (Read more)

Direct download: RowShamBow.pdf
Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 1:57 PM

AT&T is hiring 100 new technicians in Florida, noting that the state has "one of the most competitive economies for technology investment." (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:50 PM

A world-renowned team of University of South Florida researchers are set to become the new North American training directors for an advanced generation of laser scanners in a unique collaboration with Lake Mary-based FARO Technologies. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:42 PM

Maitland-based AcAe Software, LLC has announced plans to expand their Central Florida operations, a move expected to create 93 new positions within the next three years. The company provides high-tech design, consulting, and support services for companies using electronic design automation software. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:59 PM

FairWarning Inc., a St. Petersburg-based electronic health records manager, will hire 70 additional employees over the next two years, according to a company release. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:28 PM

Drawn by Orlando's strong IT talent base, Team Cymru, a specialized Internet security research firm, joins the rapidly growing list of companies relocating to Florida. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:24 PM

Intcomex Inc., a Miami-based distributer of IT products in Latin America and the Caribbean, has raised $22.5 million in equity. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:20 PM

xByte Technologies, a reseller of Information Technology equipment, plans to more than double its footprint in Manatee County and add 38 new jobs in the next five years. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:26 PM

OpenPeak, a company selling touchscreen devices and a cloud-based device management platform that streamlines deployment and management for service providers and enterprises, has raised $27.9 million. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:51 PM

Cloud security firm Prolexic Technologies has raised $13.9 million in a growth financing. Founded in 2003, Prolexic was the first company to establish global scrubbing centers to stop DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks in the Cloud. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:35 PM

Serve, whose core operations are based in downtown St. Petersburg, had its genesis in Revolution Money, a St. Petersburg startup that American Express acquired for $300 million. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:17 PM

With offices throughout the U.S. and eight other nations, software company SumTotal Systems Inc. chose to move its headquarters to Gainesville and relocate other operations as it geared up for growth. The local office has grown from 40 to 130 people and plans to hire about 40 more over the next few months. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:35 PM

Boca Raton's OpenPeak, a company selling touchscreen devices and a cloud-based device management platform that streamlines deployment and management for service providers and enterprises, has raised an additional $15.54 million. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:28 PM

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has expanded its already strong presence in Florida with the opening of a 25,000-square-foot facility to provide development and integration support to the growing Healthcare Solutions business. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:19 PM

Gartner, Inc. is expanding in Fort Myers, Florida for a combined total of 400 net new jobs. Gartner currently employs 350 in Fort Myers and will be expanding into a new 120,000 sq. ft. build-to-suit facility. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:51 PM

As part of AOL Inc.'s commitment to expand its reach in the US and continue to attract top talent, the company announced today that it is opening a new office in downtown Orlando, Florida. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:15 PM

The first 'Location-as-a-Service' company launches cross-carrier services for mobile enterprise and raises largest round in location enablement industry history. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:50 PM

Melbourne software developer Amovius expects to double the number of employees working in its 11,000-square-foot office. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:13 PM

Savtira Corporation is bringing 65 new jobs to the historic Ybor City district of Tampa Bay, Florida. Savtira, a new provider of outsourced e-commerce solutions, will be moving into its new 8,000 square foot Ybor City headquarters in early 2011. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 4:29 PM

Youtorial beat more than 450 teams to earn a founding spot in the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's first ever Kauffman Labs program. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 9:12 PM

Ft. Lauderdale's Next One Interactive has signed an equity purchase agreement for up to $15 million. Next One delivers targeted content via digital platforms, including Satellite, Cable,Broadcast, Broadband, and Mobile. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:13 PM

Boca Raton-based FriendFinder Networks Inc., one of the world's leading internet-based social networking companies, completes more than $551.2 million in financing. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 5:05 PM

CallMiner Inc., the industry leader in enterprise speech analytics announced today it has received a $3 million investment from The Florida Growth Fund LLC. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:49 PM

Miami's CareCloud, a provider of web-based on-demand software and services for the healthcare industry, has closed on a $5 million round of investment capital. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:34 PM

Sanborn Studios LLC announces the creation of a new film and television production facility in Sarasota County. The company has committed to adding 177 jobs and making an initial capital investment of $30 million over the next 18 months. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:18 PM

Florida is home to 15 of the 2010 InformationWeek 500 companies. These rankings recognize business technology teams that have made a demonstrable impact on the way their organizations do business. (Read more)

Direct download: InformationWeek_500_2010.pdf
Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 5:31 PM

NetBoss Technologies Inc., a new company that recently acquired an established product line of network management software, will locate its new operations in Indian River County. The company plans to hire 55 to 60 computer technicians, customer support personnel and office staffat an average annual wage of $85,000. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 3:20 PM

CallMiner, a Fort Myers-based company selling speech analytics software, has closed on a $4 million round and plans to use the funds for expansion. CallMiner's clients include Continental Airline, Daimler Financial Services, and Comcast, among others. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 4:34 PM

Tower Cloud Inc., which provides backhaul services to mobile wireless carriers, has raised $25.5 million in equity funding. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:19 PM

A tiny Internet provider based in Myakka City has landed a federal award of nearly $8 million that will enable it to live up to its "Broadband to the Boonies" motto. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 5:21 PM

SEOP Online, a search engine optimization company headquartered in Ontario, Canada, has announced plans to establish Florida operations in Casselberry and create 200 new technology-based jobs within the next two years. (Read more)


Tampa electronic payment firm Fintech was named the nationwide Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:58 PM

OpenPeak, a Boca Raton-based company selling multi-media touch screen devices and device management software, has raised $52 million in equity and debt funding. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:42 PM

Martin County's Old Cell Phone Co. recently expanded into 20,000 square feet in Palm City and plans to add 863 jobs in the next 36 months. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 5:48 PM

rVue Holdings, Inc., a leader of digital advertising via its proprietary rVue Ad Exchange for Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) media, has secured over $1 million in financing. Simultaneously, rVue Holdings was quoted on the OTCBB exchange trading under the symbol "RVUE." (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 4:51 PM

The Business Development Board of Martin County is pleased to announce the expansion of GiftRAP Healthcare Software. The company is adding employees and expanding into a bigger facility. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 5:45 PM

Orlando's XOS Digital, a company selling content management software and digital media services for college and pro sports organizations, has raised at least $37.1 million of a targeted $41.9 million. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:33 PM

Open source business intelligence software vendor Pentaho has raised a cool $7 million in fourth-round funding, bringing total funding to around $32 million. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:34 PM

Wireless communications tower company Tarpon Towers, has received a $15 million investment from Spire Capital Partners to further its acquisition and development strategy. With ABS Capital, Tarpon has secured over $50 million of equity and also has a $30 million bank facility with a prominent regional bank. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 2:12 PM

Largo's Beckwith Electric, a premier provider of innovative and high quality electronic products, systems, technical services and custom solutions, will be awarded a U.S. Department of Commerce Award for Export Achievement. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 4:16 PM

Star2Star Communications LLC, which develops and provides business grade communications solutions via the Internet, plans to create 80 communications technology jobs over the next five years. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 7:03 PM

Melbourne-based United Service Source Inc., provider of commercial and residential communication technical services, will add 30 jobs in a 17,000-square-foot expansion project. The new space will allow for the integration of Ascent Media's Palm Bay operation, as well as a new technical operations center. (Read more)

Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 5:10 PM

IntegraClick, a rapidly growing Sarasota Internet firm, has closed on a campus on 12 acres of land. The new space will accommodate IntegraClick's Clickbooth.com business, its sister divisions Calculated Creativity and Authorise.com, and lead to the addition of more than 100 jobs. (Read more)
Category:Information Technology: Company News -- posted at: 6:44 PM

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