A hot streak in mergers and acquisitions globally has been felt locally.
The trend has resulted in some big deals for local entrepreneurs and investors in a little more than six months.
One of those big deals involved the acquisition of a company based in Gainesville that generated a record payout to a Naples-based investment fund.
Investors in Tamiami Angel Fund I earned more than 10 times the money they put into the company, known as Fracture, with their exit, according to the fund s chairman. The business, started by two University of Florida graduates, prints frameless photos on glass.
Other eyebrow-raising deals include the sale of two longtime, successful manufacturers in Southwest Florida: Storm Smart in Fort Myers and Azimuth Technology in Naples. While the values of those deals haven t been disclosed, market watchers estimate both transactions run into the multimillions.
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On Wednesday, April 28, Luke Combs shared the video for ‘Forever After All’ featuring wife Nicole.
The track is the third single of a three-part trilogy about his wife as the singer previously shared, “first came ‘Beautiful Crazy,’ then “Better Together,’ and now ‘Forever After All.”
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The bill would have shielded the identities of anyone applying for a job as a state university or college president.
A measure that would create a public records exemption for university presidential candidates failed in the Florida Senate Tuesday. Since the measure would have changed the state’s public record laws, it needed a two-thirds majority vote to pass.
The bill would have shielded the identities of anyone applying for a job as a state university or college president. But it would have made the names of finalists public at least 21 days before any interviews or final decisions could happen.
Latest iPhone update adds increased privacy protection, transparency
Published: April 28, 2021 8:17 AM EDT
Updated: April 28, 2021 10:25 AM EDT
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Chances are that one of the first things you did this morning was check your phone and your phone was also tracking your movements But now, new privacy settings from Apple let you stop it tracking your activities between apps.
By pressing just one button, you now have more control over your privacy settings, which means those targeted advertisements that pop up on your Facebook or Instagram accounts may start to disappear if you opt not to share your data.
Before this new software update, you didn’t have the option to allow or disallow certain data tracking between apps and on the web.