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No idea what sort of job might suit you? A Middle River company that fuses apps and psychology has a personality test for that — one built around images rather than questions. - Dock workers and the management of 15 East Coast and Gulf ports reached a tentative agreement on a new master contract late Friday night, averting a threatened walkout on Wednesday.
- Almost nothing is bigger than Super Bowl Sunday for pizza and wings restaurants such as Michaelangelo's in Towson.
- New York NAACP has a conflict of interest over city beverage ban
- Micros Systems Inc. reported Thursday it earned $44.1 million in the second quarter ended in December, about a 15 percent increase from a year earlier.
- Have you walked in the grocery store lately and seen a plethora of products labeled "gluten-free?" Do you think that gluten free is a means to help you lose weight or improve your health? Here's what you need to know.
- In a bid to boost recycling and reduce litter, a trio of lawmakers announced plans Monday to push for legislation that would levy a refundable nickel deposit on every beverage container sold in Maryland.
- President of Maryland Retailers Association answers five questions about changing nature of retail
- A bill would make soft-shell crab the state sandwich, but some wonder why not the crab cake?
- Anne Arundel casino expects 10 percent increase in revenue with extended hours
- Maryland beverage industry wrong to criticize Howard County over ban
- Beverage industry representatives object to Howard County's ban on the sale of sugary drinks on county property.
- Busloads of fishermen are coming to Baltimore for a showdown Friday over how much to cut back the industrial-scale harvest of a little, oily fish that figures prominently in the seafood industry.
- Howard County Executive Ken Ulman's ban on sugary beverages on county property won't solve the obesity crisis, but it helps create a culture in which people make healthier choices.
- In an effort to establish a health-conscious, countywide health precedent, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman signed an executive order restricting county government departments from distributing beverages high in sugar on county-owned property or at county-sponsored events, programs or meetings.
- Effective Jan. 2, Peter Altabef, 53, will succeed A. L. "Tom" Giannopoulos, who will continue as executive chairman until June 30, 2014
- Effective Jan. 2, Peter Altabef, 53, will succeed A. L. "Tom" Giannopoulos, who will continue as executive chairman until June 30, 2014
- Responding to consumer demand, retailers have pushed up store openings to the end of Thanksgiving dinner, started online price wars in November and replaced door buster opening events with waves of sales targeting different consumers.
- South African government has released its death grip on the wine industry; apartheid is a thing of the past; the world has opened its doors once again to South African wine.
- Company will cater to poker players now that expanded gaming has come to Maryland, still plans for mid-2014 opening
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- Tenable Network Security Inc. has quietly built a booming business selling network security products and services to the U.S. government and companies around the world. It's profitable and has thousands of clients.
- Late senator took on meat industry and pioneer nutritional guidelines
- The wine industry has witnessed a pendulum swing toward science and technology vs. tradition and time-honored practice. Today, practitioners of both schools of thought have found common ground. Both "disciplines" have learned from each other.
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- Hilary Phelps wraps up the off-the-runway scene at spring 2013 fashion week in New York.
- Q&A with Roxie Herbekian, president of Unite Here Local 7
- I call this facility the "Doomsday Casino" because it will doom the gaming industry in Maryland. Competition from the "Doomsday Casino" will overwhelm the original five gaming locations in the state.
- Just in time for the Baltimore Grand Prix on Labor Day weekend, a local technology company is offering spectators a way to keep their cellphone batteries charged as they watch the races.
- Gambling was the death of Detroit: Will Baltimore be next?
- Requiring some companies to offer health insurance will be bad for businesses
- Foodem gets $75,000 investment from TEDCO
- Anne Arundel County's largest family farm, Dodon Farm, seeks to join Maryland's growing wine industry.
- Maryland's burgeoning agritourism industry is offering consumers yet another product to satisfy their hunger — or thirst. New legislation has generated a flurry of hops growing, barley malting and beer production at several area farms.
- Shoppers in Maryland are becoming used to getting a break on state sales tax for one week every August, and many now plan their back-to-school shopping around the event.
- Maryland's crabbing rules aren't satisfactory for the watermen or the regulators, and they're working together on a better management scheme.
- With drought-fueled corn prices threatening to clobber consumers, it's time to ease the federal ethanol mandate
