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With Valentine’s Day drawing closer, your time to make a dinner reservation dwindles. If you need a little inspiration, OpenTable just released its annual list of the 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America, which includes winners from 31 different states as well as Washington, D.C, selected from over 30,000 restaurants across the country. Read more at … Read more
Last Thursday, I had the honor of taking part on a panel at Pensacola Young Professionals Quality of Life Survey Event, Perception vs. Reality. I was reminded of how far Greater Pensacola and Escambia County have come in the last few years. Public perception is that our economy has improved. According to the Quality of … Read more
Students at Pine Forest High School will benefit from a statewide investment by AT&T this year – one that seeks to increase understanding of how classroom curriculum translates into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers. For ten consecutive years, AT&T is working with the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (CFEF) to provide experiential learning … Read more
A Pensacola-based health technology company was selected by Microsoft to participate in a new grant program to help expand the company’s work using retina imaging to detect disease. Microsoft’s AI For Good initiative announced on Wednesday the start of new $40 million, five-year program called AI for Health that hopes to use artificial intelligence to help solve health … Read more
The University of West Florida has been awarded a five-year grant totalling approximately $2.4 million to prepare cybersecurity students for federal, state, local and tribal government organizations amid a cyber workforce shortage. The National Science Foundation CyberCorps® Scholarship For Service grant will provide scholarships for 23 undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity, computer science and information technology … Read more
A team of students from Escambia County School District middle schools recently concluded an exceptional round of competition in the twelfth season of CyberPatriot – the Air Force Association’s National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. Read more…
Pensacola International Airport served a record 2.2 million passengers in 2019 and has been rated one of the 3 fastest growing airports according to UpgradedPoints.com! Upgraded Points says PNS saw year-over-year growth of 15.83% placing it third just after Nashville International (BNA) and Jacksonville International (JAX). Read more on weartv.com
Why Should You Export to the Caribbean Region? The Caribbean region represents a sizeable export market of 44 million people who collectively imported over $27 billion of U.S. goods and services in 2018. Huge Demand The region is the third largest export market for U.S. manufactured goods in Latin America behind only Mexico and Brazil. … Read more
Congratulations to our client Altius Marketing for their client Mr. Pollo Pensacola making Yelp’s top 100 restaurants to try in 2020; actually they were #61, the only area restaurant on the list! Read more!
The Federal Reserve Banks are conducting a national survey of existing and pre-start small business owners/managers. This survey helps to amplify the voices of small businesses. It tracks small business financing conditions and brings small business conditions to the attention of service providers, lenders, and policymakers. Individual responses are confidential. Summary results will be shared … Read more
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