financing and stock offerings

• Travel

The week ahead for December 9-15: Hilton IPO; quarterly industrial data; IP changes [Pictures]

• Financing and Stock Offerings

Retailer DTLR scraps plans for IPO

Apparel retailer DTLR Holding Inc. of Hanover said Friday that it has canceled its plans for an initial public offering, citing an unspecified "business development" as the reason.

• Technology Industry

Cisco to buy Columbia's Sourcefire for $2.7B

Columbia-based cybersecurity firm Sourcefire is being acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

• Media Industry

U.S. stocks end higher despite negative news much of year

• Business

Data protection firm SafeNet names new CEO

• SafeNet Incorporated

SafeNet spins out its classified government solutions business

SafeNet selling government solutions business

• Media Industry

Investor distrust likely to rise after Facebook IPO debacle

Maryland brokers and advisors say Facebook IPO sours investors on the stock market.

• Opinion

Egg on Face(book)

Stock market investing is simply another form of gambling

• Media Industry

T. Rowe Price sees Facebook investment more than triple in a year

T. Rowe Price Group's stake in Facebook Inc. more than tripled in value as the social networking giant went public in the second biggest IPO in history on Friday.

• Business

Millennial Media posts loss in first quarter as a public company

Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising company that had an IPO in March, posted its first quarterly results as a public company — which included a $4 million loss — that were on track with Wall Street's expectations.

• Media Industry

Millennial Media today to release first quarterly financial results since IPO

Millennial Media releases first quarter financials today

• Business

T. Rowe Price managers met with Facebook execs Tuesday

As part of its public offering roadshow, Facebook executives met Tuesday evening with managers of T. Rowe Price, which owns a $408 million stake in the social media company through its mutual funds.

• Latest

Mobile ad leader Millennial Media goes public

Baltimore's Millennial Media founded in 2006, now dominant in mobile ad market

• Business

Millennial Media's shares nearly double at IPO opening

Millennial Media IPO

• Latest

Millennial Media readies for IPO Thursday

Baltimore's Millennial Media Inc., one of the largest companies in the fast-growing mobile advertising industry, said it would launch its public offering on Thursday, with expectations of selling $132.6 million worth of shares on its first day on the New York Stock Exchange.

• Media Industry

Facebook files to go public

Baltimore's T. Rowe Price is a significant investor in Facebook

• Latest

Baltimore's Millennial Media files for IPO

Millennial Media, a five-year-old mobile advertising firm based in Baltimore, has proposed an initial public offering of shares of its common stock in paperwork filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Groupon Inc.

Groupon: Baltimore restaurants hot and cold on deals

Jay Hancock: Baltimore's Prime Rib restaurant sold hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of Groupon coupons one day last month, but restaurants such as Miss Shirley's, Charleston and Petit Louis are leery of online discounting.