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Private Equity

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Benihana To Be Sold for $296 Million to Private Investors

    Less than two years after Burger King was sold to private investors, another Miami-Dade-based national restaurant chain is going private. It was announced today that Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s Private Equity Group will pay $296 million for Benihana, Inc. and take the chain private.

  • News

    April 19, 2012

    Mitt Romney's Years at Bain Represent Everything You Hate About Capitalism

    Less than two years after Burger King was sold to private investors, another Miami-Dade-based national restaurant chain is going private. It was announced today that Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s Private Equity Group will pay $296 million for Benihana, Inc. and take the chain private.

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Miami-Based Internet Start-Up Creates Social Platform For Artists

    Tedd BernardA Miami Internet entrepreneur is looking to bank on the demise of MySpace. Tedd Bernard is chief executive of Almostfamous.com, a small company developing a social media platform for musicians to interact with fans and talent agents."Now that MySpace is dying, Almost Famous can step in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Burger King Lays Off 261 Local Workers Right Before the Holidays

    The takeover of Burger King by private equity firm 3G Capital continues to have an aftertaste for longtime employees worse than their cardboard-y fries. The Miami-based, quick-meat chain has laid off 413 workers company wide, with about 261 of those coming out of South Florida. The brunt of those la ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2010

    Suspended Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones's Café Soul gets evicted

    The takeover of Burger King by private equity firm 3G Capital continues to have an aftertaste for longtime employees worse than their cardboard-y fries. The Miami-based, quick-meat chain has laid off 413 workers company wide, with about 261 of those coming out of South Florida. The brunt of those la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    After Eviction, Spence-Jones's Liberty City Cafe Is for Rent

    ​Sometimes Riptide likes to reminisce about our long and circuitous relationship with Michelle Spence-Jones. Like the good ol' days, last June, when she was still Overtown/Liberty City commissioner and we were trying to track her down for comment about her involvement in the case of since-convicte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Silicon Beach: Scrapblog Dumps Miami for Silicon Valley

    More than 2 million registered users have worked with Scrapblog's easy-to-use interface.Miami startup Scrapblog is apparently saying bye-bye to Silicon Beach and moving its physical office to the San Francisco area, according to word on the street. Though the company has not yet made an official ann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Silicon Beach: Refresh Miami, September Edition

    Douglas Suarez, Jose Gonzalez and Joel Cloralt, three of Worsterer.com's founders, posing with a dress installation by artist Theresa Marie Calluori, currently on exhibit at Windisch-Hunt Gallery.​Wednesday was that time of the month again when local tech and social media pros gathered to share id ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Jeb Gets a Job

    Jeb Bush used to have a cushy post-Gov gig as a private equity adviser at Lehman Brothers. Well, apparently his private equity advice didn't do much in keeping the firm from collapse, and Ol' Jebby's only had his duty as president of Jeb Bush & Associates to keep him busy ever sense. Unlike the ... More >>

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