Mica urges Orlando International Airport to dump TSA
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 12:31:52 -0700 | business-news
Mica said his intent was to make the sky safer, not create an agency that he contends is bloated and overly bureaucratic. He predicted contractors would be more efficient in staffing, which he said would shorten the time passengers spending...
PETA buys shares of SeaWorld stock in bid to influence theme park
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 12:18:48 -0700 | business-news
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc., the theme park company often targeted for protests by the animal rights group. David Perle said Tuesday his group purchased 80 shares for more than $2,200 in last week's initial public offering of SeaWorld stock...The animal rights...
Orange leaders oppose regional toll-road board
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 10:04:56 -0700 | business-news
Mayor Teresa Jacobs said that more elected officials are needed on toll agency boards; she's the only elected official on the Orange authority. And Jacobs and others said separate agencies are more desirable, so that appointees living in other counties...
HBIF honored as Bank of America's Neighborhood Builder
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 09:08:18 -0700 | business-news
The Orlando-based non-profit provides free bilingual assistance to Hispanic entrepreneurs trying to establish or expand businesses in Florida. Thursday during a breakfast at the National Entrepreneur Center in Orlando Fashion Square Mall . Earlier this year, the Bank of America...
TeleConsultants Network, DBA "TeleSpeak" a developer and provider of cloud based telecommunications, ...
Source: PR Newswire
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-23 07:24:31 -0700 | business-news
Co founder & Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Chance Myers states," Steve's addition to our company's board brings a high level of expertise within the areas of technology that TeleSpeak focuses on. Capital, an employee-owned merchant bank targeting businesses with...
Always big, March bigger still this year for Orlando hotels
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 17:52:55 -0700 | business-news
March is a prime month for both spring-break tourists and conventioneers in Central Florida, though judging from the new statistics, businesses focused on leisure travel fared better this year, said Michael Terry, an instructor in the University of Central Florida's...
Florida's do-not-call registry grows sixfold after fees dropped
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 13:38:57 -0700 | business-news
Orlando Sentinel staff report One year after the state eliminated a $10 registration fee and $5 annual fee, the number of Floridians on the statewide Do Not Call list has jumped from less than 72,000 to more than 464,000, the...
Orange bus stop benches may face more oversight
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 12:45:29 -0700 | business-news
Commissioner Scott Boyd said the next contract could require more strategic sites for the benches and a formal permit process, or possibly rules that would require trash cans nearby. "There hasn't been a whole lot of oversight," Boyd said. However,...
Cash becomes king in Florida home sales
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 12:22:49 -0700 | business-news
Homeowners are beginning to recapture some of the wealth that evaporated when the housing bubble burst...Well it's the way those properties are being sold a trend that warrants attention. Data from the Florida Realtors show that in February, 51 percent...
04/22: Conventions
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 12:22:46 -0700 | business-news
Girl's Junior Regional Volleyball Championships , Saturday-Sunday, range County Convention Center, 11,400...Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America 70th Annual Convention & Exposition , Sunday-April 30, Grande Lakes Orlando, 2,000...Journal Live 2013 , April 30-May 2, Orange County Convention...
New American Home architect: Custom homes are on a room diet
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 12:22:44 -0700 | business-news
Winter Park architect and certified residential contractor Phil Kean, 51, is president of the Master Custom Builder Council and the designer/builder of the New American Home for the 2012 International Builder Show, which was in Orlando. He spoke recently with...
Legislators to haggle over Visit Fla. money
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-21 11:15:26 -0700 | business-news
EDT , April 21, 2013 Lawmakers in the Florida House and Senate began final budget negotiations over the weekend, with funds for Visit Florida among many items hanging in the balance. Before the session, Republican Gov. Rick Scott recommended a...
7 construction teams seek I-4 makeover contract
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-19 14:44:54 -0700 | business-news
Orlando Sentinel Seven construction teams are in the running for the $2.1 billion overhaul of Interstate 4 through Metro Orlando, state officials said Friday. The bidders include companies from across the world, all of which are competing to design, build,...
Farewell, tech readers
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-19 13:15:29 -0700 | business-news
EDT , April 19, 2013 Today marks the end of my nearly 12-year career at the Orlando Sentinel. I'm taking a job as managing editor at a downtown Orlando startup that builds financial and medical websites. The company also focuses...
Pay package soars for Ruth's CEO O'Donnell
Source: Orlando Sentinel Online
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-04-19 09:52:56 -0700 | business-news
Ruth's Hospitality Group Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Donnell's 2012 compensation package was $1.7 million, a 150 percent increase from the previous year, according to documents filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission ...He also received $412,456 in stock awards...
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