Local companies thrive with Apple

Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules

In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other...

The Real Estate Wonk: Real estate for the Facebook crowd

New social media frontier: organ transplants

Pamela Paulk (pictured), an executive at Johns Hopkins Hospital, donated a kidney to a painter and mechanic there. Many in the transplant...

High court won't block remote storage DVR

PHILADELPHIA - Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on...

Record number of biotech firms wait for tax credits

With many waiting in line for five days, a record number of biotechnology companies yesterday filed for a generous Maryland tax credit...

Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale, but privately

Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad...

More people turn to Twitter as primary news source

Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where...

Your computer, your eyes only

Bill Anderson calls it his "aha" moment - that sudden flash of insight when he drew a career-altering connection between decades-old...

Web games developer Zynga expands with Maryland office

Zynga Inc., one of the largest developers of online games for social networks, said Tuesday that it will open its first East Coast office in...

Biotech companies line up for tax credits

Maryland start-up biotechnology companies began lining up Friday morning for a chance to apply for the state's generous, but limited, tax...

NY attorney general says Tagged social networking site stole e-mail identities

Universal Music Group partners with TuneCore to help discover new artists

Sprint Nextel signs $5 billion networking deal with Ericsson, transfers 6,000 employees

Review: Web service Aardvark helps you get advice from people in the know whom you might know

Twitter's influence, moneymaking challenges emerge as hot topic as media summit kicks off

EMC to buy Data Domain for $2.1B, NetApp drops out of bidding contest

German justice minister asks foreign ISPs to block neo-Nazi sites

Amazon lowers price of Kindle electronic reader to $299 from $359

Google, Microsoft chairmen share laugh together as battle for tech supremacy intensifies

Internet radio stations reach deal to head off crippling increase in copyright royalty rates

Broadcom drops takeover bid for Emulex, ending months-long struggle

Now's the time to get a discounted version of the next Windows _ if your PC is up to it