First Union to buy Wachovia for about $13-billion in stock
First Union Corp., the nation's sixth largest bank, is buying Wachovia Corp. for about $13-billion in stock in a deal that would unite the two North Carolina banking rivals into the nation's fourth biggest banking company.
From landfills to links
As urban land runs out, landfills offer potential sites for golf courses and other development close to downtowns. EnCap Golf of Tampa is struggling to turn its expertise in environmental issues and golf courses into a profitable business.
Scanning the skies for next Jannus Award winner
After landing Virgin Atlantic Airlines founder and billionaire iconoclast Richard Branson as the honoree last year, organizers of the Tony Jannus Award have mulled over an impressive array of airline heavyweights for top billing at the Oct. 13 event.
Read the billboard, hear the commercial
Convergence has been touted as just about any combination of media. It was the rationale that drove the two biggest radio station chains, Infinity Broadcasting Corp. and Clear Channel Communications Inc., to buy the nation's two biggest billboard companies.
Shares haven't been popular ... with Outback insiders
Outback Steakhouse Inc. has done everything but back flips during the past year to get investors to buy its stock, with scant success.
Lincare annual meeting: on the road again
For the second year in a row, Lincare Holdings Inc. is taking its annual meeting on the road. After an appearance last spring in Texarkana, Texas, the Clearwater home-oxygen service is heading to Hamburg, N.Y., for its shareholders' meeting May 7.
But the weather's too nice to be inside online
The Tampa Bay area regained lost ground in this year's list of the 50 "most wired cities," but Fort Lauderdale took the top ranking for the Sunshine State.
