April 20, 2024

Wednesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 10/10/2018

› Airbnb, Rosen Hotels offer deals to those fleeing Hurricane Michael
Airbnb hosts and some hotels in Central Florida are offering discounts and free stays to those displaced by Hurricane Michael. Rosen Hotels & Resorts has lowered room rates to its distress rate level, meaning guest can stay for $59 per night at six local hotels and $79 per night at three others.

› Florida company was trying to force Croatian music fest promoter to sign deal, lawyer says
A nine-person jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently found that Florida-based Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc., promoters of the Ultra Miami Music Festival, had intentionally set out to defraud Adria MM Productions Ltd. by taking over a music festival promoted by Adria and confiscating the proceeds.

› Florida Airport Wraps Major Runway Rehab
Florida’s Page Field has completed a major nearly two-year-long runway and taxiway rehabilitation project. Work on Runway 5/23 and its associated taxiways began in January 2017, milling the runway down and overlaying new pavement.

› Sunrise-based virtual health service snags top deal worth $50 million in quarter
Virtual health service MDLive raised $50 million in the third quarter, which was the top venture capital deal in South Florida and the second-highest in the state, according to the third-quarter MoneyTree Report released Wednesday.

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