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Amazon’s Fire TV is adding local news in many more cities

The Verge

At that time, the app offered local news coverage in 12 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, and more. But today, Amazon says it’s expanding local news to “88 major cities” across the US, “including popular local stations from news distributors such as ABC Owned Television Stations, CBSN, TEGNA, Cox, The E.W.

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7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida

TechCrunch

Lakshmi Shenoy is CEO of Embarc Collective , a nonprofit innovation hub in Tampa that builds bold, scalable, thriving companies. Recent data from LinkedIn published in Axios put Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro areas among the top 10 U.S. Do you need to be local to a target customer base or community?

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Housing market watch: States where housing inventory just spiked

Fast Company Tech

Generally speaking, local housing markets where active inventory has returned to pre-pandemic levels have experienced softer home price growth (or outright price declines) over the past 30 months. These areas saw major price surges during the pandemic housing boom, with home prices getting stretched compared to local incomes.

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Biker Philanthropy: TechSoup Revs Up Donated Computer Programs for Kids

Tech Soup

I gave Greg Reaster a call to find out what they were doing in the Tampa Bay area. After that Reaster began putting ads in the local paper soliciting for computers. We see lots of kids in the Tampa Bay area with natural smarts but no money in the family for a home computer. " Naturally, we were excited to check this out.

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Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet

The Verge

The Philadelphia Inquirer , Tampa Bay Times , and Capital Gazette have also said that they are having issues with publishing stories due to the outage. A trains are no longer running local in Brooklyn. We are working to resolve this quickly. RSS Podcasting (@rss) November 25, 2020. We will continue to post updates here as we have them.

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This startup wants to use technology to help solve Austin’s housing shortage problem

TechCrunch

But this month, Homebound will be expanding to Austin, its first non-disaster market, with the goal of taking learnings from those rebuilds and applying the same “streamlined, tech-enabled building process” to make custom homebuilding an option for local homeowners. It’s going to be a huge market for us.”.

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Fitness app FitOn raises $40M, acquires corporate wellness platform Peerfit

TechCrunch

FitOn is also expanding its reach in wellness by acquiring Tampa-based corporate wellness platform Peerfit. Peerfit connects employers, brokers and insurance carriers to local fitness experiences and wellness services and has more than 13,000 employer customers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.