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Straighterline wants to help professors expand reach, while students save

2012-09-04 07:54:00

Burck Smith is so far making good on his vision for revamping the way people pay for and complete college courses. His startup company, Straighterline, enables students to pay $99 a month for introductory college courses — and potentially save...

Millennial Media readies for IPO Thursday

2012-03-28 14:40:00

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...

Mobile ad leader Millennial Media goes public

2012-03-29 16:20:00

For a day, a Baltimore company had IPO fever. Fast-growing Millennial Media Inc., a Baltimore-based mobile advertising company, sold shares to the public Thursday, breaking a years-long IPO drought in the city's technology sector. It ended the day valued...

The job hunt gets social

2011-08-14 00:00:00

Gary Bacon spotted a Web designer job posting online several months ago and shot an email to a recruiter at Medifast Inc. But that was just the beginning. Bacon connected with a recruiter, Caitlin Goldstein, and the conversation moved to Twitter. They...

At Columbia mall's Apple store, customers pay tribute to Jobs

2011-10-06 10:22:00

In the late morning hours of Thursday, Oct. 6, the Apple store inside The Mall in Columbia was filled with a few dozen customers and employees. It was business as usual. Tributes in the front window, however, told another story, as did a bouquet of...

Crowdfunding allows everyone to be an arts patron

2011-06-13 18:21:55

When Scott Burkholder wanted to raise money to create a mural showing the word "love" spelled out in hand gestures, he turned to the power of the crowd. Burkholder, the executive director of the Baltimore Love Project, launched a giving campaign online...

Google to introduce voice, text systems

2005-08-24 00:00:00

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Further expanding beyond its roots in Internet search, Google Inc. plans to launch a long-rumored program today that provides both text instant messaging and computer-to-computer voice chat. The new program, Google Talk, will...

More power to you

2003-08-14 00:00:00

Putting aside the debate over whether Apple Computer Inc.'s Power Mac G5 is "the world's fastest personal computer" as the company claims, the machine blows away any previous Mac. Clearly the Power Mac G5, which Apple will begin shipping by the end of...

Mac OS 9: Never say 'never'

2002-12-19 00:00:00

Uncharacteristically bowing to the needs of its customers, Apple Computer Inc. last week changed its mind on a policy announced in September declaring that as of Jan. 1, all new Macs would boot into only Apple's OS X software. To assuage concerns about...

Sherlock or Watson? It's elementary

2003-04-10 00:00:00

Persuading people to change the way they're accustomed to doing something is almost always a tough sell. Back in the late 1980s, when cable television finally arrived in Baltimore, I was still living in my parents' home in the northeast section of the...

What's up Apple's sleeve for '03?

2003-01-02 00:00:00

For those that closely follow Apple Computer Inc., true satisfaction comes rarely -- the focus instead always is on when chief executive Steve Jobs will introduce the company�s next product. So despite a year when Apple introduced one major new product,...

Apple's Universal gambit goes for broke

2003-04-17 00:00:00

For the second time in a little more than a month, reports of a music-related initiative by Apple Computer Inc. have touched off a flurry of speculation. But last week's article in the Los Angeles Times, which reported that Apple has been in talks for...

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook told a Senate committee looking at its tax payments that "We not only comply with the laws, but we comply with the spirit of the laws."

2013-05-21 12:58:09

The facade of an Apple store in San Francisco.

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Customers carry an Apple Inc. iMac computer in front of an Apple store in San Francisco

2013-04-19 00:00:00