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FirstMonday
October 2, 2009 |
Medical Markers |
A new EDC program celebrates strides in
building the regin's life science industry. |
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Florida
Trend
October 1, 2009 |
Medical City Is Changing Florida's DNA |
Orlando's medical cluster is a big step
toward critical mass for the state's biotech initiative. |
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Entrepreneur
August 2009 |
Where
to Be an Entrepreneur - The Coordinator: Orlando, FL |
Orlando may be the house the mouse built, but
a long stretch of intergovernmental and private cooperation is what
turned the city into one of the most highly coordinated
entrepreneurial engines in the country. |
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CNNMoney.com
August 2009 |
Best
Places to Live |
CNNMoney's Best Places database of 1,800-plus
U.S. cities includes towns with populations 8,500 to 50,000 with
satisfactory education and crime scores, where income is below 200%
of the state median, and that are no more than 95% white – as well
as cities with populations 90,000 and up. |
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WFTV.com
August 2009 |
UCF
College Of Medicine: The Players, The Vision, The
Future |
There's a new model for American health care
right in Central Florida. UCF has a new way of training
doctors. |
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CNNMoney.com
July 21, 2009 |
Where
the jobs are |
Especially in a tough economy, plentiful job
opportunities are key to making a great place to live. These 25
counties have experienced the most job growth over the last eight
years. |
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Forbes.com
June 2, 2009 |
Best
Cities For Technology Jobs |
Is your local economy safe from the tech
bust? You might be surprised. |
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P3
Update
2009 |
South
Atlantic Region |
Florida offers producers and directors a lot
more than just cold, hard cash. The state is beautiful year round
and superb locations are in abundance - to say the least. Florida’s
geographic diversity is very impressive, featuring everything from
swamps, jungles, savannahs, and ranches to gorgeous beaches and
rural landscapes. |
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WDBO
December 3, 2008 |
Simulation
training show spotlights Orlando as industry leader |
Orlando is home to the simulation training
industry. Over the course of nearly 30 years simulation training
has grown from simple programs to full 3D simulation that combines
virtual reality with a game-like atmosphere. |
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WESH.com
December 3, 2008 |
Orlando is Bright Spot
for High Tech Simulation Jobs |
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Business
Xpansion Journal
December 2008 |
Florida is
brighter and bolder
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Florida is one of the leaders in
the world in strategic geographic location, state of the art
infrastructure, multilingual workforce, and concentration of
corporate and financial resources. In fact, if a company wants to
do international business, Florida is the state in which to
begin. |
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WMFE
October 2, 2008 |
The Arts
Connection In Conversation: Ralph Clemente |
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Builder
News magazine
October 2008 |
News/City
Spotlight: Orlando, FL
Growing to new heights |
Everyone’s heard a professional
athlete who’s just won the big game proclaim, "I’m going to Disney
World!” But what they really meant was, "I’m going to Orlando,
Florida!” |
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WMFE
March 27, 2008 |
The Arts
Connection |
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Military
Training Technology
October 11, 2007 |
NCS Heading
M&S Charge |
Orlando, Fla. has long been the
hub for military-based simulation technology activity, anchored by
the training system procurement commands of the Army, Navy, Air
Force and Marines. |
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The New York
Times
September 6, 2007 |
What Do
Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job) |
Early this summer, Joshua J.
Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he
quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the
belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast
daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs. |
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TechJournal
South
July 9, 2007 |
BioOrlando
launch highlights growing tech hub |
Think Orlando and you’re likely
to conjure images of Disney World, theme parks, palm trees and golf
courses. But behind the scenes, the city has quietly created a $15
billion technology industry, including a growing life science
cluster. |
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Florida
Trend
April 2007 |
Economic
Yearbook
A New Spirit |
Economic Growth: Metro Orlando
has been named a top 10 "geek mecca" by Wired
magazine. |
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Business 2.0
May 2007 |
The Best
Jobs in the Hottest Markets |
The great American hiring boom
is slowing down — but as labor cools with the rest of the economy,
a few choice regions will stay red-hot. You just have to know where
to look. |
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TechJournal South
February 2007 |
Spotlight: Orlando
The Light Fantastic in Central Florida |
One day
communications will travel on multi-colored beams of laser light
delivering data, video, and the Internet at a terra bit–one
trillion pieces of information–per second. |
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Wired magazine
January 2007 |
Best Geek Cities! |
Using
highly scientific methodology as well as algorithms snuck out of
NASA and Google, we analyzed cities across the U.S. to find the Top
10 Places to get your geek on. |
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FederalTimes.com
November 3, 2006 |
From Dirt Roads to Disney World |
Up until
the late 1950s, cattle ranches, citrus groves and rustic dirt roads
dominated Orlando and outlying counties in Central Florida. That
was then. |
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National Real Estate Investor
August 2006 |
Technology Triumph |
When an
unknown buyer began taking options on swampland south and west of
Orlando in 1964, some speculators figured on an expansion of the
Glenn L. Martin Co. missile plant. |
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BusinessWeek
August 21/28, 2006 |
Pushing for Growth: How Cities Succeed |
Even with
globalization, location still matters in economic competition. But
it is more important than ever for communities to offer distinctive
advantages. |
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eWEEK
June 2006 |
Beyond the Valley: 10 Blooming U.S. Cities for
Tech |
eWEEK editorial scoured dozens of news stories, job
reports and technology forecasts, crunched them all together with a
dash of insight, and came up with the following 10 cities and their
surrounding areas. |
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go (airTran's inflight
magazine)
April/May 2005 |
A Magic Kingdom for
Entrepreneurs |
Three decades after Walt Disney
established his empire here in 1971, a ripple effect has spread
through Orlando, creating an ever-growing entrepreneurial
hotspot. |
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CBS News
February 8, 2005 |
Military Using Video
Games |
Video games are increasingly
used as teaching tools, and even the U.S. Military is taking up the
theory that games can sharpen, rather than rot, the mind. Mark
Strassmann reports on digital combat. |
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National Real Estate
Investor
January 2005 |
Orlando Diversifies and
Prospers |
Beyond tourism, the regional economy is
benefiting from a burgeoning high-tech corridor and downtown
investment. |
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Financial Times
January 12, 2005
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Game for an
education |
Where do video games come from?
Or, more precisely, where will the next generation of video game
developers come from? |
