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Verizon Communications launched its expanded Fios DVR television service this week in the Baltimore region. - Pascal Tessier, 17, of Chevy Chase, delivered more than 120,000 signatures to online retailer Amazon on Wednesday, asking the organization to halt its charitable donations to the Boy Scouts of America because of the scouting organization's ban on gay leaders.
- Congress needs to close the online sales tax loophole.
- The members of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company are the stars of an online documentary series, a series which its executive producer is pounding the pavement to get on television.
- Investors hailing from other markets, even those from the state that produced Silicon Valley and Hollywood, are readily overlooking opportunities in their own backyard in favor of placing capital in Baltimore. Why? Because the narrative surrounding Baltimore is beginning to shift.
- Consumer complaints have been an online mainstay for years — review site Yelp is a decade old. But that world is morphing.
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- Horseshoe Baltimore holding training sessions throughout the city
- The most important TV moment of 2013 didn't even happen on television.
- Their real-life drones are under assembly and likely won't be up and flying until March.
- Documents reveal behind-the-scenes trouble at Maryland health exchange
- Rather than putting a happy face on Obamacare website fixes, the administration needs to be more forthright about the problems that remain.
- Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that wants to have the most glaring glitches in the state's health insurance exchange website resolved by mid-December, potentially allowing thousands more Marylanders to sign up for policies by the end of the year.
- "Roulette," a psycho-thriller by Maryland native Erik Kristopher Myers, will be sure to leave you feeling tense and on-edge.
- Solid political satire from Garry Trudeau makes for impressive Amazon launch.
- With millions of consumers getting cancellation notices for their current health plans, President Obama announced Thursday that he will encourage insurance companies to continue offering their customers the same health plans next year.
- Baltimore is failing its small businesses in favor of big chains and large employers
- Amazon.com will open a 1 million-square-foot distribution center that could employ 1,000 people at the site of the former General Motors plant in Southeast Baltimore, the company announced Tuesday.
- An undercover federal agent in Maryland played a key role in the shutdown Wednesday of what authorities describe as a massive online drug marketplace, owned by a 29-year-old engineer who authorities say had begun scheming to kill perceived rivals.
- An undercover federal agent in Maryland played a key role in the shutdown Wednesday of what authorities describe as a massive online drug marketplace called the Silk Road, whose owner allegedly began scheming to kill perceived rivals.
- Christopher Adam Wright, a teacher and former restaurant worker, died of an aneurysm Aug. 27 in Bogota, Colombia, where he was working as an English teacher. The former Mount Vernon resident was 40.
- The 1 million-square-foot distribution facility planned for Southeast Baltimore fits the profile of online retailer Amazon's rapidly expanding distribution network, according to shipping industry analysts.
- Kasasa rewards program helps small institutions compete with big competitors
- It's hard to get upset about the government snooping on us when half of corporate America is already doing it.
- Peter Morici says taxing Internet sales is a matter of fairness, but more small businesses should be excluded
- The Senate voted Monday to allow states to assess a sales tax on purchases from Amazon.com, eBay and other online retailers in a bipartisan measure that would also reduce the increase planned for Maryland's gas tax.
