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St. Petersbug's First Home Bank announced Monday it was changing its name to BayFirst.
First Home Bank in St. Petersburg changes name to BayFirst
The change matches the company’s branding with that of its parent company.
Tampa telecom firm Syniverse sells $750M minority stake
Tampa telecommunications firm Syniverse has closed on a $750 million investment from San Francisco's Twilio, giving Twilio a minority stake in the company.
San Francisco’s Twilio bought the stake after a separate $2.8 billion merger deal fell through.
A St. Petersburg lumber yard will soon have affordable housing
An affordable housing complex is set to be built on a former lumber yard in St. Petersburg.
The site is close to downtown, beaches, shopping centers, Gibbs High School and the Pinellas Trail.
Tampa’s downtown waterfront is open except for this stretch. Why?
Gates secure the waterside area of Tampa's cruise ship Terminal 2, which is used about 30 days a year. Downtown boosters would love to see it open to the public when not being used by cruise ships.
Fans of downtown wonder if it’s possible to open up the least-used cruise ship terminal on the waterfront near the Riverwalk. The Port of Tampa is saying (mostly) no for security reasons.

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  1. Tampa telecom firm Syniverse sells $750M minority stake
    45 minutes ago• Business
    Tampa telecommunications firm Syniverse has closed on a $750 million investment from San Francisco's Twilio, giving Twilio a minority stake in the company.
  2. First Home Bank in St. Petersburg changes name to BayFirst
    1 hour ago• Business
    St. Petersbug's First Home Bank announced Monday it was changing its name to BayFirst.
  3. McDonald’s to sell its Russian business, try to keep workers
    3 hours ago• Nation & World
    A McDonald's restaurant is seen in the center of Dmitrov, a Russian town north of Moscow, in 2014. McDonald’s says it's started the process of selling its Russian business, which includes 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people.
  5. In U.S. hospitals, a drug mix-up is just a few keystrokes away
    Yesterday• Health
    Hospitals are not required to report most drug mix-ups, so many incidents go unreported.
  6. Baby formula shortage is a nightmare for Tampa Bay parents
    May 14• Health
    Dominique Dudley, 31, gives a 7-ounce filled bottle to her 6-month-old son Amir at their St. Petersburg home on Thursday. His mother switched from breastfeeding to baby formula in January because she wasn’t able to pump during the day due to work. But now Amir's parents and parents across the country are grappling with the national baby formula shortage.
  7. Ukrainian Pierogi Bar finds new St. Petersburg home
    May 14• St. Petersburg
    A staff worker hand rolls and fills pierogi at a house in St. Petersburg on March 2, 2022. Pierogi Bar is a Ukrainian cottage kitchen that will soon open its own restaurant on Central Avenue.
  8. Florida gas prices set another record high
    May 13• News
    Florida gas prices were above the national average, according AAA auto club, which cited a series of factors.
  9. Musk puts $44 billion deal to buy Twitter on hold
    May 13• Business
    CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., on July 13, 2021.
  10. Lawsuit splits sellers of $28.5M apartment site key to Ybor redevelopment
    May 13• Business
    The Tampa Park Apartments site, shown here in February 2021, is at the center of a lawsuit involving the property's sale to Ybor City real estate investor Darryl Shaw for $28.5 million.
  11. ‘Good Morning America’ says these are some of Tampa’s best barbecue spots
    May 13• Food
    Two Tampa pitmasters faced off Friday during a segment of Good Morning America's "United States of BBQ" tour. (Shown above: A half rack of ribs from Betterway BBQ at 22 South, the food hall inside the historic Manhattan Casino in St. Petersburg).
  12. Sephora opens in Lutz and Lakeland Kohl’s stores
    May 13• Business
    Sephora at Kohl's opened in Lutz and Lakeland on Friday May 13, 2022.
  13. Tampa City Council heeds concerns from gated community, nixes hotel
    May 13• Tampa
    Harbour Island residents who live behind private gates successfully lobbied Tampa City Council Thursday to reject a proposed hotel at the gates of their residential neighborhood.
  14. Senate confirms Powell for 2nd term as Fed fights inflation
    May 12• Business
    Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve on May 4 in Washington. The Senate on Thursday confirmed Powell to serve a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair.
  15. Hillsborough, Pinellas report best-ever tourism numbers
    May 12• Business
    Hillsborough County reported surpassing $7 million in monthly tourist tax collections for March. It was the third consecutive month, the county tourism agency reported a new benchmark in tourist taxes - a 6 percent levy on overnight accommodations.
  16. Even when insurance covers IVF, high bills and hassles abound
    May 12• Health
    About 1 in 5 women have trouble getting pregnant, and in vitro fertilization has become a common path to parenthood for many. But even as demand grows, insurance coverage remains limited. About 27 percent of companies with 500 or more employees covered IVF in 2020, up from about 24 percent in 2015, according to Mercer, a consulting firm.
  17. Tampa’s downtown waterfront is open except for this stretch. Why?
    May 12• Business
    Gates secure the waterside area of Tampa's cruise ship Terminal 2, which is used about 30 days a year. Downtown boosters would love to see it open to the public when not being used by cruise ships.
  18. Tampa’s First Citrus Bank merging with Michigan credit union in $100M deal
    May 12• Business
    Michigan's DFCU Financial is merging with Tampa's First Citrus Bank, whose Carrollwood headquarters is shown here.
  19. A St. Petersburg lumber yard will soon have affordable housing
    May 12• Real Estate
    An affordable housing complex is set to be built on a former lumber yard in St. Petersburg.
  20. What’s at stake in the COVID mask mandate appeal
    May 12• Health
    U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle joined the federal bench in 2020 after being nominated by then-President Donald Trump.
  21. Florida Big Sugar’s campaign donations reach $6M in state races
    May 12• Politics
    Sugar cane grows in a large field owned by the US Sugar Corp. as a rainstorm rolls in over Clewiston in August 2014.
  22. Settlement in deadly Surfside collapse nears $1 billion
    May 12• Florida
    Rescue workers work in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, Fla., in this June 25, 2021 photo. Video released by a team of federal investigators shows more evidence of extensive corrosion and overcrowded concrete reinforcement in a Miami-area condominium that collapsed in June, killing 98 people.
  23. Downtown Tampa apartment tower sells for $184 million to Goldman Sachs
    May 11• Business
    This pre-construction rendering shows the Nine15 apartments at 915 Franklin Ave., which sold for $120 million in 2020 and again for $184 million on May 6.
  24. Tampa is ‘extraordinarily strong,’ says Mayor Jane Castor
    May 11• Tampa
    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor delivers her State of the City address titled “Resilient Tampa” at the Tampa Convention Center on Wednesday.
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