Credit card security lapses cause worries for retailers
Retailers are concerned that they might bear the brunt of lapses in credit and computer security, including the breach that led to hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of credit...
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Stock option millionaires
His salary wasn't the highest ($439,754), and his bonus ranked relatively low ($165,103). But Henry "Pete" Linsert Jr., chief executive officer of Martek Biosciences Corp. of Columbia, still cashed in...
Ailing sales again for FluMist
Though flu season is not over, a report by one Wall Street analyst suggests sales of FluMist, the nasal spray flu vaccine made by Gaithersburg-based MedImmune Inc., will again be...
Doctors facing tough decisions
The day after Christmas, days before her malpractice insurance bill came due and Maryland politicians hammered out a bill in the hope of rescuing doctors such as her, Nancy Brown-Holt...
Judge faults Md. law on spam
In a decision that could hamper Maryland's efforts to control spam - the popular term for junk e-mail advertising on the Internet - a Montgomery County judge has ruled that...
Turning up the heat on spam
WASHINGTON -- Sitting in a plush leather chair in a borrowed office at George Washington University Law School, Eric Menhart seems nothing more than an ambitious, third-year law student with...
Tech firms, lawmakers target spam, e-mail fraud
Marci De Vries, a Baltimore marketer, won't open her e-mail in front of clients, fearful that they'll think she's a pervert when they see some of the subject lines on...
Skepticism on Google IPO emerges as auction nears
Google Inc., the search engine giant whose first stock offering supposedly augurs a rebound for the technology economy and a rare opportunity for the small investor, may turn out to...
Virus strikes Google as it files for IPO
On a day when Internet search giant Google Inc. stuck its neck out and placed a $36 billion value on itself - higher than even McDonald's Corp.-many users found its...
Schools revising emergency plans
School emergency practices used to consist of fire drills, evacuations and, occasionally, hiding under a desk, which was supposed to protect kids not only from earthquakes and other natural disasters,...