Move over baseball lovers! On Nov. 7 Marlins Park will have a different crowd of fans in its stands. The park will be the venue of TigerDirect's third annual "Tech Bash," expected to draw over 20,000 tech-curious visitors.The free event will show the latest trends...
He may be the reigning Indy 500 champion, but Ryan Hunter-Reay has only one thing on his mind at the moment - not waking toddler son Ryden from the ever-important afternoon nap. "Sorry I'm whispering," he says, "the baby is sleeping."This level of normalcy from the...
Cigar retailing is typified by a guy who loves to smoke and opens one store. Abe Dababneh has built an empire.His Smoke Inn stores have grown to 12 locations with online sales, the Microblend Series line of cigars, and the Sindicato cigar company he formed...
About 90 percent of all businesses in the United States are owned or controlled by families, but only 30 percent make it successfully to the second generation. Only 10 to 15 percent make it to a third generation, and only 4 percent to a fourth....
Document management nightmares usually begin innocuously with those email attachments that go back and forth among clients, business partners and others. Soon these documents grow too large for mailboxes to handle, and your inbox and sent folder become your file management system. This may work...
A trio of the biggest names in South Florida technology history will speak during an event Thursday evening (Sept. 25) at Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale.The panelists are:* Manny Medina, founder of Miami's Terremark, which developed the NAP of the Americas in Miami and became...
The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce honored two individual leaders and Miami Dade College for vision and leadership with its first Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Award of Excellence.The program as part of the chamber's trustee luncheon at Jungle Island was a great tribute to the...
The Incubator: Metro Broward Economic Development Corporation's Small Business Success Center says it aids startup companies by providing access to advice from industry leaders, academic professionals, subject matter experts, financial advisors, marketing and public relations professionals - all within a solid, turn-key infrastructure.President & CEO:...
Henry Flagler was the original architect of South Florida, but Jorge Pérez is arguably the biggest modern contributor. Since Pérez founded the Related Group in 1979, it has built 80,000 condominium and apartment buildings in the state - the vast majority in South Florida. That's roughly...
Uncertainty is the watchword for South Florida's community banks as they grapple with the banking reform regulations resulting from the Dodd-Frank Act.Dodd-Frank already has more than 5,000 pages of complex regulations - with more to come - that are meant to curb the questionable lending...
