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USAA and Hiring Our Heroes Announce Best Places for Veterans after Military Retiremen Gainesville was recently ranked the 8th best metro area in the nation for military retirees, according to a new study commissioned by USAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program. Orlando, the only other Florida city on the...

Info Tech, a Gainesville, Fla.-based consulting and software company, has announced its intent to relocate its headquarters to the upcoming Celebration Pointe project. The company will build a brand new, 60,000-square-foot headquarters with the help of Celebration Pointe developers. “We are very excited to be making this announcement today,” said Dr. Jim McClave, CEO at...

Brian T. Cook has been announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of North Florida Regional Medical Center and is scheduled to start on December 1. Cook was hired from within the HCA system and is winding down his responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer of Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee. His 11 years of...

Cornell University Provost W. Kent Fuchs (pronounced “Fox”) has been unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees to become the next UF president. Fuchs will be UF’s 12th president-elect. Fuchs’ appointment will begin Jan. 1, 2015. “I will devote for the next 10 years all of my energies, all of my experience, all of my...

The Cade Museum for Creativity + Innovation is moving forward with plans to build public exhibit space, and the project just got a huge boost. Mary Cade, the widow of the museum’s namesake and Gatorade inventor Dr. Robert Cade, announced she will match every dollar raised for construction during the next year. The “We Believe”...

A three-year legal dispute involving Gainesville-based music streaming website Grooveshark resolved Monday when a U.S. District Court in Manhattan issued a summary judgment holding the company liable for copyright infringement. The ruling states that Grooveshark is responsible for copyright infringement because employees uploaded and distributed 5,977 unlicensed music files to get the database off the...

People invested in the local tourism industry are considering the implications of building a stand-alone conference center. But the jury is still out on whether it’s a worthwhile investment and where the funding to build it would come from. A question of demand A report issued in March by the proposed developer, NPI, paints an...

More than 350 employers converged on the UF campus for the annual Career Showcase, held Sept. 30 – Oct. 1. An estimated 8,000 suited-up students and alumni visited the O’Connell Center during the two-day event, billed as the “largest career fair in the Southeast.” New vendors to this year’s Career Showcase included Lilly Pulitzer, Jacksonville...

UF is going to build a new hospital. Today, the UF Health Shands board approved funding for the construction of a new specialty hospital, which will include towers for neuromedicine and cardiovascular services. The new hospital “will accommodate anticipated growth in these areas and provide additional space for patients from the main hospital,” according to...

Gainesville-based drone developer Prioria Robotics announced it will hire seven more employees in response to acquiring a handful of big-name research and development contracts. Prioria cofounder Bryan da Frota said the company recently took on projects for NASA, DARPA, the U.S. Navy and the Air Force. This pushes the company’s projected year-over-year revenue growth to...