e commerce industry
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The Under Armour brand is poised for continued growth thanks to new product offerings and the company's continuing push into international markets, executives told stockholders Tuesday. -
- Baltimore startup Bandhappy.com, savvy musician-entrepreneurs bring live music lessons to the web
- Millions are braced for the opening of "Hunger Games," the latest young adult book series to become runaway hit and then a movie and, it's looking like, a cultural phenomenon on the likes of "Harry Potter." Tickets to a number of the shows in the Baltimore area are already long gone.
- A Maryland plan to sell tax credits to insurance companies succeeded in raising $84 million in a novel online auction, and the revenue will be pumped into promising technology companies across the state over the next 18 months, officials said.
- Baltimore's top information technology official resigned Tuesday after an audit in New York detailed alleged ethical violations that occurred while he worked in state government, including negotiating a job for his girlfriend and soliciting a job himself with a software vendor that was awarded a major contract.
- Hundreds of items up for bids, including an at-home wine tasting for 12 from Iron Bridge Wine Company
- Gov. Martin O'Malley will propose a groundbreaking shift in pension costs to local governments, a phase-out of income tax deductions for high earners and spending cuts to Medicaid as part of a plan to chop Maryland's long-term deficit by more than half in the next year, legislative sources said.
- NFL has shut down hundreds of China-based sites selling counterfeit Baltimore Ravens and other team jerseys and other merchandise to U.S. consumers
- Puppy mills are inhumane, commercial breeding facilities that put an emphasis on profits over the health of the dogs they sell
- Maryland should take a cautious approach to web-based lottery ticket sales despite their potential as a lucrative fix to the state's ailing budget
- FedEx expects to move more than 17 million packages worldwide on Dec. 12, double the company's daily average volume.
- Hand-held devices get a fashionable upgrade with customized covers
- Yaakov Bar Am, an Orthodox Jew and custom furniture maker, has started a business called Maryland Artisan Guild. He represents artists as far away as Lancaster, Pa., and Bethesda, Md., showing their work at art fairs, posting their work online and providing publicity and marketing and administrative help.
- Big multi-state corporations need to pay their fair share of taxes — even for transactions conducted on the Internet.
- Early surveys show that shoppers packed stores and spent money in record numbers on Black Friday in what analysts call a hopeful sign for the U.S economy after months of up-and-down consumer spending.
- Perryville Board of Commissioners reviews rental dwelling code, while one questions whether it is necessary at all
- Besides Black Friday and Cyber Monday, surveys show there are other days of the year to nab great bargains.
- To level the field for Maryland-based retailers, state must act boldly and go after the millions of dollars in unpaid sales taxes from online firms
- Elected officials and tourism industry leaders have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars developing slogans to emphasize Baltimore's finer points. But several designers in the Baltimore area have capitalized on the demand for ironic T-shirts.
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- Crustacean is popular is everything from pewter to pillows to prints
- Wine lovers finally get an opportunity to buy wine on-line while those who favor premium cigars are granted a curious reprieve
- Applying the state sales tax to internet sales could prove disastrous if sellers back away from local affiliates as they have elsewhere
- Applying the sales tax to on-line sales is a good way to anger voters
- Like other states, Maryland looks to closing the tax loophole that has allowed Internet companies like Amazon.com to avoid charging a sales tax
- How consumers frustrated by automated customer service can find a real person.