"Miami looks beyond banks, beaches to tech" by Laura Wides-Munoz | Associated Press May 06, 2014
MIAMI — Famed for beaches, cruises, and Cuban coffee, South Florida is now angling to become one of the nation’s next tech hot spots by leveraging its role as the gateway to Latin America and luring northern entrepreneurs with cheap living costs and lots of sun.
The Miami area has long pinned its fortunes on real estate and banking, but the recent recession, which shook those economic drivers, an increase in cloud computing, and the rapid growth of mobile devices in Latin America have civic leaders and entrepreneurs pushing to diversify into tech....
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