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The Florida Venture Forum (http://www.floridaventureforum.org) has selected 17 Florida based companies to present at its Early Stage Venture Capital Conference, to be held at the Reunion Resort in Orlando on May 10, 2012. Seventeen of Florida’s best early-stage prospects for equity financing will make 10-minute presentations to an audience of venture capitalists, private equity investors, angel investors, investment bankers, financial intermediaries and entrepreneurs. Presenting companies are listed by region below: Central/East Central Florida BungoBox, (www.BungoBox.com), Casselberry, rents recycled and recyclable industrial strength plastic moving boxes to commercial and residential customers as an alternative to traditional cardboard boxes. They have a strong direct presence in Central Florida, and have established franchises in Tampa, South Florida, Jacksonvill... (more)

Legendary Comic Creator, Hollywood Icon, and Chairman of POW! Entertainment, Stan Lee, to Be Honored at 2012 Catalina Film Festival

LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 04/04/12 -- Catalina Film Festival (CFF) today announced that POW!'s Stan Lee will be honored at the second annual film festival. The Festival will be held May 4-6, 2012 on the famed Catalina Island -- a storied Hollywood stomping ground that has been featured in over 500 films, television programs and commercials since 1912. Lee will receive the "Great Communicator" Award -- an honor bestowed by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation -- during the Opening Night ceremonies Friday, May 4. On Saturday, May 5, Lee will host the island premiere o... (more)

World-Class Sailors to Race on Gull Lake

BRAINERD, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 05/01/12 -- National and world-class sailors will compete with sailors from a five-state area as the Gull Lake Yacht Club, located in north central Minnesota, again hosts the annual E-Scow Invitational of the Inland Lakes Yachting Association (ILYA), July 12-15, 2012. More than 50 E-scow sailboats, including some of the nation's top one-design sailors, are expected to participate in five races on Gull Lake during the three-day event. This year's Gull Lake event marks the third E-Scow Invitational (1998 & 2003) hosted by Gull Lake Yacht Club. "We'r... (more)

Clout vs. Klout: Why They Aren’t the Same Thing, And Never Will Be

There’s been a lot of noise lately about a company called Klout, which recently rounded up another $30 million in venture capital funding from several big firms. Klout, for those who don’t know it, attempts to put a single numerical value on your online influence across social-media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. This effort seems to piss off a lot of people, who detail numerous shortcomings in a service that aspires to be the metric of choice for companies trying to reach social-media “influencers,” in much the manner that Google’s PageRank system helps people un... (more)

World's First Global KA-Band Network Set to Revolutionize Digital Newsgathering

Pompano Beach, FL, April 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT.L), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with GMPCS to appoint the broadcast media solutions specialist as a Value Added Reseller of Global Xpress™. Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) will be the world’s first global Ka-band network, providing broadcasters with true broadband speeds of up to 50Mbps to mobile and portable devices. Utilising iDirect technology and user equipment from the leading manufacturers, Global Xpres... (more)