technology industry

• Opinion

The EU's taxing problem

Cal Thomas asks whether the EU cares if Apple pulls out of Ireland and thousands of jobs are lost.

• News

Hogan proposes giving Northrop Grumman $20 million to secure division headquarters and jobs

Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing $20 million in funding for defense and aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, designed to retain the company's newly created Mission Systems divisional headquarters in Linthicum and 10,000 jobs in Maryland.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Feb 19, 2016

• Maryland

Harford's Glassman calls his first year as county executive 'amazing'

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman says his first year in the top local elected office fulfilled a long-held dream.

• National Government

Obama order allows sharing of data on cyberattacks

Onstage at a major computer security summit at Stanford University, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for private companies to dip into the government's deep reservoirs of data on cyberattacks.

By Ian Duncan

Feb 13, 2015

• Crime

Marylanders' data exposed in scores of hacks

It was a typical winter morning on the Twitter feed of Eastern Shore television station WBOC: a stream of messages about snowfall and a reminder to download the station's weather app for the latest updates.

By Ian Duncan

Jan 17, 2015

• Business

Local startup in the battle for razor customers

Netflix changed the way people rent movies. Amazon upended the big-box bookstore. Other online retailers have grabbed market share in niches as diverse as contact lenses and pet medications. Why not disposable razors? That's the question posed by a Catonsville-based firm — along with about half a dozen other online upstarts.

• Opinion

Reining in the NSA

Putting limits on the agency capacity to spy on Americans may not be as easy as it sounds

• Business

Five questions with Trusant Technologies' founders

Vince Marucci and Joe DiGangi were in the same class at West Point, went to Stanford University for master's degrees, returned to West Point to teach and later ended up working at the same Columbia tech firm. So it's not surprising that they decided to start a business together. Their lives kept intersecting. Q&A with founders of Trusant Technologies.

• Harford

Surveys find Harford teachers satisfied with their schools, students say they work hard

Harford County educators reported greater satisfaction in a majority of areas related to their profession, according to the results of a statewide survey, even though fewer teachers and teacher support staffers participated than did two years ago.

• Politics

Mayor says speed cameras still not ready to issue tickets

Six months after Baltimore pulled its speed and red light cameras offline because of mistakes, officials say the city's vendor still isn't ready to begin issuing tickets — and no one can say when the program will resume.

• Business

Five Questions for Frank Bonsal III

Q&A with Towson University's first director of entrepreneurship

• Business

Amazon's Baltimore distribution center means sales tax for its Md. shoppers

When Amazon.com opens a huge distribution center next year in Southeast Baltimore, consumers across the state who buy books, electronics, toys or anything else from the online seller will no longer be able to avoid the state's 6 percent sales tax on those purchases.

• Maryland

3-D printing hits the masses at Hampden's Atomic Books

Atomic Books in Hampden recently became a pioneering spot in the city where customers can walk in and get objects printed with a 3-D printer– sort of a photocopy store for the 21st century.

• Politics and Government

Contractors among those shut out by shutdown

As Congress considers legislation to provide back pay to furloughed federal workers, far less attention has been paid to contract employees — many of whom work side by side with their agency counterparts.

• Howard County

Library lands $267,500 grant to developing HiTech initiative

The teen girls at a Howard County Library System forum for suggestions on its technology-based HiTech initiative bristled at the though of venturing toward STEM-related fields, seeing virtually no correlation between the sciences and their pastime, fashion.

• Colleges and Universities

HBCU presidents believe court ruling could bring more resources

Presidents of the state's historically black colleges and universities were cautiously optimistic Tuesday that a recent federal court ruling ordering remedies for persistent segregative policies in Maryland higher education would result in new opportunities and resources for their campuses

• Technology Industry

Fiber-optic network lighting aspirations across state

Hundreds of miles of new fiber optic cable are lighting 21st-century ambitions across Maryland: Economic development officials imagine businesses opening or expanding thanks to more robust Internet connections. School administrators envision students using more electronic resources. Some folks just look forward to dumping their dial-up modems.

• News

Silk Road arrest exposes a hidden Internet

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

• Business

Technology driving younger generations' shift away from cars, study finds

New carsharing services, travel apps and other technological tools are contributing to a broader shift away from driving among Americans, especially younger ones interested in digital multitasking on the go, according to a study released Tuesday by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund.

• Food & Drink

Smaltimore takes off quickly in Canton

To call Smaltimore, the Canton bar that replaced Lager's Pub in July, "busy" on a recent Sunday afternoon would be a severe understatement.

• Education

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• Health

Confusion, misinformation hinder health outreach

Advocates and outreach workers visit Maryland neighborhoods, festivals, community meetings to tell about new health coverage and dispel myths.

• Opinion

What Emmys mean to 'House of Cards,' Internet TV

When the Maryland workers building the sets for "House of Cards" started sawing and hammering the offices and homes of characters like Francis and Claire Underwood 20 months ago in Harford County, most of them were thinking only of earning a steady paycheck, not being part of TV history.

• Maryland

Foley, new Fort Meade commander, braces for more cuts

Col. Brian Foley has taken command of Fort Meade at a challenging time for the U.S. military.

• Obituaries

Kathryn D. Brunelle, flight attendant

Kathryn D. "Kathy" Brunelle, a flight attendant who was also chief financial officer of her husband's company, died Monday of a stroke at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 44.

• Education

UMD receives $750 million in software

UMD receives software grant worth $750 million from a division of Siemens Corp. — the largest donation of its kind for both the electrical engineering giant and the state's flagship school.

• Business

Five questions with Alan and Lois Elkin

Alan and Lois Elkin chat about their Cockeysville company, Advance Business Systems, as it nears 50.

• Anne Arundel

Annapolis mayoral primary election on Tuesday

Annapolis voters will start the process of selecting a mayor and city council to serve for the next four years on Tuesday with a primary election. The primary features five people running for the seat currently held by Mayor Josh Cohen: Democrats Cohen and Bevin Buchheister and Republicans Frank Bradley, Bob O'Shea and Mike Pantelides.

• Baltimore County

Local company competes in Wall Street Journal's 'Startup of the Year' program

Beau Dakin's and Zulu Gonzalez are competing in the Wall Street Journal's Startup of the Year program from their home at Umbo's bewitch cyber incubator

• Business

Gen Y shoppers, raised on e-commerce, still prefer in-store experience

Tech savvy millennials may be used to buying almost anything online, but they still do most of their shopping in stores, especially those that keep their offerings fresh and make the experience social, according to research from the Urban Land Institute.

• Business

Marketing CEO for Columbia-based firm driven to race Porsches

Merkle Inc. CEO David Williams participating in Porsche races during weekend Grand Prix event

• Opinion

A farewell to privacy

In the name of ever-increasing security, we are giving up an essential component of democracy

• Defense

Outgoing Fort Meade commander reflects, looks ahead

Fort Meade, home to the National Security Agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency, U.S. Cyber Command and other key organizations, was a net winner in the 2005 round of BRAC. By the time Army Col. Edward C. Rothstein took command, military spending was beginning to tighten again.

• Laurel Leader

Ulman announces Howard County program to commercialize inventions

If RoboSally, a bomb-defusing robot with humanlike hands, is any indication, the future may be coming a little faster to Howard County

• Business

Maryland goes after payday lenders' banks to stop illegal loans

Maryland's financial regulator is trying to stop illegal online payday loans by going after the banks that help make these loans possible.

• Harford

Havre de Grace library branch to be replaced with larger facility

Harford County Public Library officials are planning to replace the 26-year-old Havre de Grace branch at the corner of North Union and Pennington avenues with a branch almost twice the size of the existing facility.

• Business

In 'cyber' Maryland, a bid for business growth

Much of Maryland's cybersecurity sector revolves around the federal government. But some groups and firms are trying to push the state's cybersecurity boundaries to grab more of the commercial market at a time of tighter federal budgets.

• News

Former Baltimore police officer indicted on charges of running prostitution service

Federal prosecutors say Lamin Manneh oversaw two prostitutes including his wife who serviced 300 customers.

• Business

Betamore startup Riskive sees unmet need protecting social media accounts

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.

• Jobs and Workplace

Veterans get help translating military skills to civilian jobs

Today's job market is challenging, but particularly so for veterans whose experience isn't always clear to the companies that might hire them.

• Newspapers

Amazon founder Bezos to buy Washington Post

• Business

Sinclair plans to create 'hybrid' cable TV news channel

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. plans to create a new cable television news channel with a blend of local and national programming and bring it to cities across the U.S. over the next couple of years, Sinclair CEO David Smith said Tuesday

• Harford

Two from Harford charged with bilking Medicare, Medicaid on prescription refills

Two Harford County men and a Howard County man have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with an alleged pharmacy fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say bilked the government out of at least $2.6 in Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements.

• Business

Sinclair Broadcast buying eight stations for nearly $1B

Baltimore's Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced Monday that it is purchasing eight television stations, primarily in the South.

• Business

Sourcefire founder: Cisco deal is 'a good match'

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.

• Business

Sourcefire over the years [Timeline]

A look at the history of Sourcefire, a Maryland cybersecurity firm being acquired by Cisco Systems

• Business

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.

• Startups

SEC lifts advertising ban for private securities

Come fall, you might see tweets and emails pitching private investments to you — with the blessing of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Business

A fix for the cracked-screen smartphone

Smartphones with cracked screens seem to be nearly as common as the phones themselves. A cottage industry of repair services has popped up at mall kiosks, computer shops and college campuses.

• Jobs and Workplace

Defense employees frustrated by furloughs

Mary Theresa Nipwoda, a lab technician at Aberdeen Proving Ground, did what she could to prepare for the 20-percent pay cut she knew was coming this week.