By Nick Sohr, Managing Editor, MDBIZNews Maryland’s unemployment rate inched up again last month as employers in the state shed some 6,000 jobs, according to figures released Friday morning by the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. The April jobs report ended what turned out to be a six-month run of employment growth. Labor officials [...]
By Nick Sohr, Managing Editor, MDBIZNews Maryland approved state funding for 40 researchers studying human stem cells and their applications in treating a wide range of diseases and other medical conditions. The awards, approved Thursday by the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, will be paid from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund’s $12.4 million budget for [...]
By Nick Sohr, Managing Editor, MDBIZNews Eleven horses have won the Triple Crown. Only one man has trained two winners, and only two owners can lay claim to more than one. Victory Racing Plate Co., however, boasts connections of aluminum and steel to all but a handful of the winners. Eight of those horses have [...]
By Kathy Snyder, CCE, President/CEO, Maryland Chamber of Commerce A favorite activity of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce is highlighting the successes of entrepreneurs and business leaders who not only are successful in their firms but are inspirational community leaders. Just last week, the Maryland Chamber inducted three such Marylanders into its Business Hall of [...]
By Nick Sohr, Managing Editor, MDBIZNews The online social networking sphere is a crowded one. Silicon Valley titans make billion-dollar acquisitions to spar with one another and tighten their holds on users’ attention spans. But Devin Partlow, has something up his sleeve — a social networking app that forces, or encourages, its users to interact [...]
