As early as March of this year, many parents realized that their children likely would not physically attend school for the fall semester due to the pandemic. This led to a mad scramble to make other arrangements. Some parents opted for “pandemic pods,” which are essentially groups of 10 or […]
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Text size Arbor Investments focuses on food-and-beverage investments. Lacheev/Dreamstime Arbor Investments needed only 87 days to raise its fifth fund, collecting $1.5 billion in the latest bit of evidence that life goes on for private equity despite the pandemic. The pool is roughly double the $765 million secured by Arbor’s […]
× With once-promising growth situations turned distressed, exits delayed, and IPOs shelved, some private equity CFOs and companies find themselves mismatched―and looking to make a change in a largely virtual recruiting market. For many private equity (PE) firms, the economic upheaval caused by the COVID-19 crisis has required a new […]
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Vacation Innovations (“VI” or the “Company”), a leading provider of travel-related products, software and services, today announced its acquisition of Holiday Systems International (HSI), an established travel technology solutions provider and membership platform with a 27-year history of innovation in the travel industry. HSI […]
A coalition of travel, hotel, franchise, and state and local government groups called for Congress to not go on recess without providing relief for sectors devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 175 organizations representing the public and private sector, including the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), International Franchise Association […]
PHOENIX — To its backers, Prenda microschools represents a “return to the one-room schoolhouse” of the past, empowering parents to educate their children in intimate settings away from the cruel public-school bureaucracy. But looked at another way, the for-profit company is reaching for something more contemporary, to be the Uber of education. Anyone can […]
On March 26, as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he was closing the country’s borders and shutting down tourism to help curb the spread of COVID-19, Kayla Wilkens thought of only one thing: How was she going to feed the elephants? Wilkens, the general manager of the privately-owned […]
Washington — Former White House adviser Stephen Bannon has pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering Thursday, after federal prosecutors in New York announced that Bannon and three others were indicted for allegedly defrauding donors to a $25 million fundraising campaign to build a wall along […]
Count Ashlea Hyde among the Akron Children’s Hospital employees who got a larger paycheck when the hospital in late 2019 boosted its minimum pay rate to $15 an hour. Hyde currently works part-time as a medical secretary in the hospital’s offices in downtown Warren. And, in about six months, she will […]
Three weeks before Sen. Ted Cruz embarked on his ill-fated Cancun trip to escape the aftermath of Texas’s devastating winter storm, the elite K-12 Houston private school attended by his two daughters emailed a Covid warning to parents about international travel. The bottom line: St. John’s School students who travel […]
While Connor Cruise — the son of actors Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise — isn’t super active on social media, the 26-year-old recently reaffirmed his love for the hobby that dominates his Instagram page: deep-sea fishing. In a snapshot from his birthday trip to Costa Rica, Cruise holds up a […]
“One way to do this would be for the DA (district attorney) to gather a strong case and have it filed by federal prosecutors in federal court, where the law is much more favourable to the government than it is in New York state court,” he told The Telegraph. “Tax […]
Jenna Ryan says it all began with an invitation from a “very cute guy” on Facebook: Would she join him on a private plane to the Jan. 6 Trump rally in Washington, D.C.? The decision was easy. Ryan, a Dallas-area real estate agent, is single, loves President Donald Trump and […]
A last-minute stampede of people trying to book Covid-19 tests before Christmas has prompted private firms to offer 24/7 slots to keep up with demand. Britons are keen to ensure they are free of the virus before mixing with relatives during the relaxation of restrictions on Dec 25. This has […]
Just a few months ago, news of a “digital health passport” (DHP) allowing only those who have received a vaccination to travel would have raised alarm bells around the world. The idea that an instrument as intrusive as a chip or barcode that tracks our most private health data would […]
As I was a teenager, I had the opportunity to stay on a friend’s private island in Georgian Bay, Ontario in Canada for a vacation. It had a number of smaller islands out in front of it and I remember that my friend and I were begging his parents to […]
Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff Could Make History: The Couple Opens Up About a Pandemic Campaign and More Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff open up about the difficulties of campaigning during the pandemic, how the couple stays connected despite the travel and stress of politics, and what they plan to […]
Yet, it also had a seemingly unintended consequence of unleashing the Internet’s wrath. For most on social media, her photos of the bash — which pictured plenty of people in her “closest inner circle,” all partying like it was 2019 — were about as out of touch as one could […]
Sailing out to Singapore’s southern islands, a collection of sleepy islets lapped by green seas. Photographer: Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg Photographer: Bryan van der Beek/Bloomberg Sign up here for our daily coronavirus newsletter on what you need to know, and subscribe to our Covid-19 podcast for the latest news and […]