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Attendance is rebounding across Orlando-based SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment's 10 U.S. theme parks, the company's top executive said Wednesday. SeaWorld Parks President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Atchison said in an interview with the Orlando...

Private-equity titan Apollo Global Management priced its initial public stock offering at the top end of expectations Tuesday, signaling strong investor interest in the company. New York-based Apollo and its investors sold a total of 29.7 million shares...

As SeaWorld and the team of outside experts it has assembled comb through the company's safety policies following last week's fatal killer-whale accident, they face an important question: How close is too close for the trainers who work with the company's...

In a move that spares Universal Orlando theme parks a potential financial jam next year, Steven Spielberg has agreed to delay by seven years his option to demand a payout worth hundreds of millions of dollars under a longstanding consulting......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has turned to the former head of an equity firm to spearhead the mayor's renewed job creation effort and push to make the city a more attractive, less bureaucratic locale for business. Austin Beutner, founder......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today named a successful Wall Street entrepreneur to help spur the city’s faltering economy as City Hall grapples with a crisis of high unemployment, escalating home foreclosures and a huge budget shortfall....

A longstanding alliance between Universal Orlando and SeaWorld Orlando is approaching a crossroads. After nearly 15 years of selling joint ticket packages, the two resorts must decide within the next year and a half whether they want to continue selling...

The parent company of Universal Orlando and Universal Studios Hollywood says attendance at the two resorts dipped slightly during the first three months of the year. But the customers who did show up spent more money. “We had slightly lower attendance...

Orlando's theme parks endured a grim 2009, but there's hope a new hero will rescue them in 2010: Harry Potter. Nearly three years after announcing the project, Universal Orlando is finally poised to open The Wizarding World of Harry Potter this spring....

A top executive at SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has left the company. Joe Couceiro, SeaWorld Parks’ chief marketing officer, retired April 16, the company said Wednesday. Couceiro, an executive vice president who reported directly to SeaWorld Park...

Dish Network, the nation's second largest satellite broadcaster, with just over 14 million subscribers, is planning on dropping the Weather Channel and is starting the "Weather Cast," its own version of the network. The move comes after Dish and Weather.....