Despite an agonizingly slow economic recovery, the country’s largest auto retailer, Fort Lauderdale-based AutoNation, is thriving again as demand for vehicles expands. The company, one of Florida’s largest, is posting increasingly strong profits and revenues. Just last week, in a sign of confidence, Autonation announced a major acquisition — buying six large auto stores in...
Dec
10
Preservation board to vote on whether Herald building is historic
Label: World Miami's historic preservation board is meeting Monday to consider an application for designation of The Miami Herald building.The public hearing, which is expected to take most of the day, began at 9:20 a.m. with a packed auditorium at Miami City Hall.The city’s preservation officer opened the hearing by saying the building, occupied in 1962, meets the 50-year guideline for...
Tom Brady: My Daughter Will Be An Athlete
Label: LifestyleAfter news hit that Gisele Bundchen gave birth to daughter Vivian Lake this past week, doting dad Tom Brady gushed over his new bundle of joy."It feels good,’’ Brady, 35, told the Boston Herald of the latest addition to his family. "Whatever we would have had, I would have been happy. We've got two beautiful boys, now a girl. It's great."This is the third child for Brady, who has a 2-year-old son,...
UK bank agrees to pay $330M to settle money laundering accusations
Label: Health Finally!UK bank Standard Chartered agreed to shell out roughly $330 million to resolve money laundering accusations levied by a team of US banking regulators and federal law enforcement.The 150-year-old multinational financial institution, which handles transactions for countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. among others, admitted to the Department...
AutoNation: Back in the fast lane with expansion, higher sales
Label: Business • AutoNation’s announcement December 4 that it was acquiring six auto stores in Texas, its second most important market after Florida, forms part of the company’s national growth strategy.• AutoNation operates in 15 states and, according to CEO Mike Jackson, prefers to build its brand network in existing markets rather than expand to new markets. It grows either...
Dec
09
State scraps plan to have private vendors make license tags
Label: World TALLAHASSEE -- Backing away from a possible court fight, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday that it will halt its attempt to bid license tag services to private vendors.Tax collectors — who distribute state tags — and two manufacturing groups tried to block the change by lobbying elected officials and filing legal action against...
MiFi With Touchscreen is a Road Warrior’s Dream
Label: TechnologyMeet the Novatel MiFi Liberate: the first mobile access point with a touchscreen, letting you configure it without connecting it to a computer.If you’re not familiar with mobile access points, these handy gadgets allow you to hook up to the Internet via cellular networks. It’s useful, often essential, if you’re in an area that has no Wi-Fi. If you’re in range of a cellular tower, this MiFi Liberate...
How They Pulled Off 'The Impossible'
Label: LifestyleThe true story of the devastating 2004 tsunami that consumed the coast of Phuket, Thailand -- and how one family survived it -- is reenacted by Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor in The Impossible. Watch the video to go behind the scenes...Video: Tsunami Survivor Petra Nemcova Reacts to Latest Disaster in JapanIn theaters December 21, The Impossible finds Naomi as Maria and Ewan as her husband Henry, who...
Federal tax breaks proposed for Sandy victims
Label: Health ALBANY — Two Democratic senators are proposing federal tax breaks to help victims recover faster from Superstorm Sandy.Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey want to make all repair expenses fully tax deductible, reducing the tax bite of victims in their returns covering the current year.The breaks would also include credits...
Events showcase Miami’s growth as tech center
Label: Business One by one, representatives from six startup companies walked onto the wooden stage and presented their products or services to a full house of about 200 investors, mentors, and other supporters Thursday at Incubate Miami’s DemoDay in the loft-like Grand Central in downtown Miami. With a large screen behind them projecting their graphs and charts, they set out to persuade...
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