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Chippers employees Kobe Peach, left, and Nick Christian, right, complete paperwork after treating a lawn for ticks in New London, N.H., Thursday, April 22, 2021. When landscaping work slowed down last winter, Chippers employees went to work at Whaleback ski area. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Chippers employee Nick Christian, of Woodstock, applies organic tick control to a lawn in New London, N.H., Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Kaufman Bros. analyst Aaron Kessler raised his rating of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE) shares from Hold to Buy, with a price target of $27.
Expedia, Inc. is an online travel company that manages several travel related businesses, such as expedia.com, hotels.com, hotwire.com and TripAdvicor.
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Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School softball players are shown in competition in this file photo. (Klas Stolpe) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School softball teams are ready for action, but their season opening tournament in Sitka was cancelled Thursday due to weather.
Neither team could fly out of Juneau, while Ketchikan had to overhead on to Anchorage and then back home.
The Sitka tournament, which was scheduled for Friday and Saturday, was to be “pool play” format. In a pool play tournament, each day would only count as one game towards a team’s 22-match game limit. That meant JDHS, TMHS, Ketchikan and Sitka each could have played three 65-minute time limit games a day.
6 VCs talk the future of Austin’s exploding startup ecosystem
For years now, a growing number of tech companies large and small have either relocated their headquarters to Austin or opened another office or campus in the Texas capital. They’ve been drawn to the city for a number of factors, including its laid-back lifestyle, no state tax, a business-friendly environment and lower cost of living (for now).
The impact on the city’s startup ecosystem is noticeable in the growing number of entrepreneurs (many of whom worked at some of the tech giants who have a big presence in the city) and investors calling Austin home.
Dec 21, 2020
Sweden-based investment firm EQT AB has acquired a majority stake in Storable, an Austin-Texas-based supplier of varied products and services to the self-storage industry. Expected to close by June 30, the deal will enable Storable to leverage EQT’s “technology, business-optimization and digital-transformation expertise,” with an eye toward international growth, according to a press release. Cove Hill Partners, Storable’s private equity owner, will retain a minority stake in the company, which is valued at about $2 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Storable is comprised of Easy Storage Solutions, SiteLink and storEDGE, providers of facility-management software; SpareFoot, an online marketplace for self-storage units; SBOA Merchant Services, Select Merchant Solutions and SiteLink Merchant Services, providers of payment processing; and Bader and Storsmart, providers of self-storage tenant insurance. storEDGE also offers website-development and digital-marketing se