Miami startup that turns text to video receives $1 million in seed funding

Guide, a new technology startup based in Miami, announced Tuesday it has closed a $1 million round of seed funding from investors including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Sapient Corp., MTV founder Bob Pitman, actor and producer Omar Epps, and early Google employee Steve Schimmel. The Knight Foundation is supporting Guide through its new early-stage venture...

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Judge angered after learning mentally ill Miami man was placed in assisted living facility, and escaped

After Cristobal Abreu was arrested for stabbing a Hialeah SWAT officer with a large BBQ fork in December 2009, doctors deemed his mind too ravaged by mental illness to stand trial.For years, he bounced around mental health facilities.Then a stay at a Miami Gardens assisted living facility, where funds for his medications ran out and his mental state deteriorated, ended last...

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Justin Timberlake Reveals New Album Cover for 20 20 Experience

We're one step closer to The 20/20 Experience!Justin Timberlake just dropped a major treat for his fans on Twitter, revealing the cover art and tracklisting to his upcoming solo album, The 20/20 Experience."I wanted you guys to see this first!!!," wrote Timberlake with a link to the cover (featuring the singer dressed to the nines behind a phoropter) and song titles.Pics: Justin & Jessica's Long...

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Ralph Lauren’s profit jumps 27%

Ralph Lauren posted a 27 percent increase in its fiscal third-quarter profit as the clothing company enjoyed continued momentum in spending among affluent US shoppers and improving trends in Europe during the winter holidays.The news lifted Lauren stock 6 percent yesterday.The results are an improvement from the first half of the year, when cotton costs...

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Greenberg Traurig shuffles leadership

Law firm Greenberg Traurig on Tuesday announced a new management lineup that includes naming Hilarie Bass as the first female president in the firm’s history.Bass, one of the firm’s Miami shareholders, most recently had been global operating shareholder. She will share the presidency with Brian L. Duffy, a Denver shareholder who has been global litigation chair, a position...

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Miami Heat has scholarships for graduation high school seniors

The Miami Heat is offering South Florida high school seniors college scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year.Four scholarships of $2,500 each will go to seniors who excel in academics and community service.One of the four scholarships is reserved for a student who plays sports. Applicants must have at least a 3.2 grade point average by their final semester...

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Kris Humphries Denies Kim Kardashian a Speedy Divorce Because She's Pregnant

In response to Kim Kardashian's request to expedite her ongoing divorce from Kris Humphries, the Brooklyn Nets player has formally refused to speed up the process via official court documents.In paperwork obtained by ET filed February 4, Kris's lawyer Marshall W. Waller alleges that Kim's rush to bring the case to court has more to do with her impending pregnancy than legitimate pressing matters.Pics:...

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Dan tops

Investors in Dan Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund who went to its annual meeting last night hoping to learn whether he has sold, hedged or added to his trades in Herbalife were disappointed.“He said nothing with regard to the [controversy surrounding] Herbalife,” said one attendee of the presentation at the Museum of Modern Art.Loeb did reveal that he first...

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FMLA still helping families cope with illness

When I gave birth to my daughter, I returned home with a squirmy little bundle and immediately felt overwhelmed. Though I was exhausted from changing diapers and waking for feedings, I was thankful that my job was secure.In our struggle to balance our family lives and our work lives, one law has made a giant difference for me and 35 million other American workers — the Family...

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With Scholl donation, museum’s collection grows by hundreds

It was love at first sight for Debra and Dennis Scholl and the giant pair of birdhouses-as-art.The longtime Miami art collectors saw the 400-square-foot piece by Simon Starling in a New York gallery, complete with two live finches, and reacted this way: “We know we can’t live with this,” Dennis Scholl recalled. “But we can’t live without it.”Now, nearly 10 years later, the...

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