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Silicon Valley software giant Oracle Corp. announced a deal Monday to buy Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, eyeing the Columbia firm for its niche supplying technology to hotels, restaurants and retailers around the world.

Harford County officials were all smiles as their fiber-optic system, designed to give every school, library, volunteer fire company, law enforcement and local government agency equal access to high-speed Internet, went live Thursday.\

Baltimore startup Riskive's focus on social media security with FriendGuard landed the company with a host of tech industry honors and $2.2 million from prominent local and regional investors.

Columbia-based AirPatrol Corporation will expand its operation in Howard County, a move County Executive Ken Ulman said affirms Howard's reputation as a good place to do business in cybersecurity.

Sourcefire Inc., a Columbia-based cybersecurity company, reported it earned $2.2 million in the second quarter, or 7 cents per share. That compares with a $1.1 million profit, or 4 cents per share, a year ago.

Who would have guessed 15 years ago that Martin Roesch's free computer network security program would turn into a $2.7 billion deal? Not Roesch, founder of Columbia-based Sourcefire, which just agreed to sell itself to tech giant Cisco Systems for that eye-popping figure.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake got a rare opportunity to throw a question to former President Bill Clinton, courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek -- and she used it to ask how the nation can stimulate a "more serious, bipartisan" discussion on infrastructure investment.

U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast in July and wages climbed.