Slipping through the cracks relatively quietly, Amazon completed its $8.5 billion deal acquiring MGM, the Hollywood studio with more than 4,000 film titles and 17,000 TV episodes, to add to Amazon’s Prime Video and Amazon…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: EA, HOME OR AWAY
As Electronic Arts introduced its new five-story 175,940 square foot downtown Orlando studio this past Monday, more than a new office was at stake. EA’s employees left the Company’s Maitland office some two years ago…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DEMOCRACY RULES
It has been said that American democracy produces an unruly lot. Alexis De Tocqueville learned of its dangers over 250 years ago. But, as we see what is unfolding as the result of two sovereign…
How Long Does a Moment Last?
I was playing the piano tonight. Correction: I don’t really play the piano. I was playing at the piano. I may not be particularly good, but I do enjoy it. As I was playing at the piano, I suddenly…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CLASSIC DOUBLESPEAK
Even George Orwell, author of the 1949 blockbuster, “1984,” coining the “doublespeak,” would roll over in his grave were he living in Florida today. Florida’s surgeon general called masks, which saved countless lives during the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: COMING HOME
As Omicron recedes, Google announced that workers in the San Francisco area need to report to corporate offices in April. Disney, Darden, and others are evaluating their next steps. But the question lurks everywhere –…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: WEAPONIZING FINANCE
Across the country and around the world, military aggression has been met with a financial onslaught. The world has changed since Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. We are now financially and economically interconnected in…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ROBOT BARTENDER
What do you get when you mate a bartender with a robot? Cecilia – a workhorse at Florida International University, who can mix 120 drinks per hour 24/7, and can even tell jokes at the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: RABBIT BAN
At a time of darkening clouds on the world stage, some good news emerges from Pasco County, whose county commissioners this past Tuesday banned the sale of rabbits in public places such as flea markets…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: CAR CHARGERS
With consumer interest in electric vehicles exploding, as anyone knows who saw this year’s Super Bowl ads, attention has clearly shifted to the unseen infrastructure to make EVs work – car chargers. The automotive industry…