Sunday: Disney World and International Speedway Corp. want the Florida Legislature to pass an assortment of tax breaks that could cut the companies’ tax bills for the next 20 years.
01/16: New businesses
Occupational licenses issued recently by county and municipal governments in Central Florida.
01/16: Legal Eagles
Tatiana Leo has joined the firm of Amy E. Goodblatt P.A. in Orlando as an associate.
After 10 million bars of soap, Clean the World is just beginning
Shawn Seipler was a highly paid global sales executive for an e-commerce business with a wife and four children he adored, two expensive homes and a quick rise up the corporate ladder. He was also spending three or four nights a week on the road, the c…
Cat activists urge Universal’s Loews hotels to keep feral cats
Animal-rights activists have called for a boycott of the Loews hotels at Universal Orlando because the resorts have decided to change their stance on providing a safe harbor for feral cats.
Occupy Orlando protests Orlando Chamber
About 15 members of Occupy Orlando protested outside the Orlando Regional Chamber Commerce groups Friday, denouncing the chamber for taking $300,000 in contributions from a taxpayer-funded jobs agency.
iPhone app lets Floridians report invasive species
Floridians who spot invasive species like the deadly Burmese python and the tree-choking kudzu vine can snap a picture, tag the location, and report the sighting to authorities through an iPhone app.
Disgruntled shoppers pelt Apple store in Beijing
BEIJING (Reuters) – Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone 4S as scheduled.
Riots over iPhone 4S shut down Apple Store in China
Apple’s flagship Beijing store shut down this morning — on the 1st day of iPhone 4S sales in China — after customers and gangs bombed the store with eggs when employees failed to open on time.


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