Charter school KIPP Miami has distributed more than 355 Chrome Books laptops to students, provided wi-fi hot-spots to families without internet access, hand-delivered 185 learning kits filled with school supplies and hosted a series of trainings for teachers, parents and students as part of its...
By Susan Eisenberg As most would agree, we are living and working in unprecedented times. Employers have been dealing with issues related to COVID-19 and now phasing in return to work protocols for employees. During this time, George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis sparking...
Exercise technology company Fitlight is donating a portion of proceeds from its Fitlight Trainer Neurocognitive sale to the Jackson Health Foundation through Father’s Day on June 21. The sale offers customers a discount on the Fitlight Trainer package that includes new software designed for the neurocognitive market...
The first Amazon 4-Star store in the Miami area will be a 5,000-square-foot location on Lincoln Road at the former site of Nexxt Café. [gallery ids="52249,52288,52289"] The Amazon 4-Star store at 700 Lincoln Road will carry curated products that are new, trending and rated 4-stars and above...
By Jennifer Kovach During the COVID-19 pandemic, the type of industry you are in and the location of your business determines whether you are thriving, just surviving or, in some cases, whether it is time to make that difficult decision to close. While South Florida is...
An off-shore demonstration by OceanBased Perpetual Energy, LLC in collaboration with the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University has demonstrated that clean, renewable perpetual energy can be derived by harnessing the Gulf Stream current off the coast of South Florida. While various hydrokinetic projects worldwide...
[caption id="attachment_46942" align="alignnone" width="300"] Eighty Seven Park loan paid offTerra Group and its partners announced the payoff of $155 million in construction financing for the Eighty Seven Park condominium at 8701 Collins Ave.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_46941" align="alignnone" width="295"] School leader appointedMetropolitan International Center Academy, which has 300 pre-kindergarten...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] It took only three days of deliberations in May 1998 for a jury to acknowledge the truth about a General Motors car that rolled off the assembly line some 15 years earlier. An additional $4.50 per car...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] State regulators on April 27 opened the door for applications to cultivate hemp in Florida. Hemp cultivation was enabled by federal legislation in 2018 and a state bill authorized pilot projects in 2017. The Florida Department of Agriculture...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Two of Alterna Financial’s business strategies amid the pandemic are offering insight into what’s ahead for our economy. The company led by CEO Rob Konrad, a former Miami Dolphins fullback/tight end, is gearing up to provide more commercial...
