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  • January 11, 2008
Corporate Report

First Advantage Corp. buys Fiserv's CredStarTeltronics lands marketing deal with GTIFormer Hope Hospice officer joins John R. Wood as CIOUTEK sensor company sold to Santa Barbara firmPort Manatee crane officially unveiled

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Against the Flow

Chris Markowski scours the investment community for scams, not sure things.

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  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Creating a Banking Brand

The Florida Bank Group in Tampa spent 2007 blending corporate cultures and creating a vision for what the company wants to be: a statewide network of banks that retain local management and local boards.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Grand Slam '07

Last year may be remembered as a historic year for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour both on and off the court.The most significant win was the battle for equal prize money for women at the French Open.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Technology Invasion

Advanced C4 Solutions built a reputation serving the U.S. military. Now it wants to invade private industry.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Renovation Redux

The last four months of 2007 marked a busy phase of what's become a comprehensive makeover for Lakewood Ranch-based Kesselring Holding Corp.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Building Trust

When Charles Idelson left SunTrust Bank in 2002 after having risen to president of the Lee County area, he didn't want to start another community bank. Too many of those, he says.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Finding Greener Pastures in 2010

It's safe to say Kitty Green drew the short straw. Green took over as president and chief executive officer of The Bonita Bay Group early this spring just as the residential real estate market was heading into a steep decline.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Corporate Report

Middle East investment firm buys PODS for $430 millionSyniverse Technologies buys wireless servicesAerosonic subsidiary finds Virginia contaminationBrown & Brown acquires Evergreen Re, Curzi InsuranceProgress Energy Florida buys more Biomass outputQuality Distribution finishes Boasso America buyQRS Music Technologies plans 'The Manhattan' piano

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  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Timid Customers

Even companies specializing in wrapping cars and boats in advertisements are having trouble avoiding the wrath of the all-encompassing slumping housing market.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: A Busy Birthday

The Pines of Sarasota turned 60 years old in 2007, one of several significant milestones at the nonprofit nursing home that runs a 204-bed campus a few miles from downtown Sarasota.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Follow the Champs

Commercial real estate pros share their investment insight and where they're putting their money.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: Facing the Challenge

Michael McMullan is fond of reciting this mantra: "We like to make good loans." You can put extra emphasis on good as the president and chief executive officer of Bank of Florida Corp. steers the eight-year-old Naples-based bank holding company through a challenging state economy in 2008.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Bill Business

With property taxes and insurance hogging the front burner, the state Legislature still managed to eke out a new cable TV franchise system, seed money for venture capital firms and other pro-business legislation.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • January 4, 2008
Cover Update: News you can use

Every family has a genealogist. You know the type: It's the one person that can recite your family tree back to the Mayflower.

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