Timonium video game developer Big Huge Games shuts down 
BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: May 25, 2012
Tags: 38 studios, big huge games, boston red sox, curt schilling, developer, gov. lincoln chafee, hunt valley, kingdoms of amalur: reckoning, layoff, liquidation, massachusetts, rhode island, shutting down, thq, video games
Timonium video game developer Big Huge Games Inc. closed its doors last week after its parent company announced a company-wide layoff. 38 Studios, the faltering video game company of former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, declared a “non-voluntary and non-disciplinary” layoff on Thursday, according to a letter sent to workers and obtained by The [...]
Facebook launches iPhone camera app
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 24, 2012
Tags: android, app, app store, camera, facebook, filters, instagram, iPhone
NEW YORK — Facebook’s rocky initial public offering hasn’t stopped life at the world’s biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone. The app can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store and works like most other camera applications for smart phones. To take a photo, you tap a [...]
Commercial spacecraft launch successful
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 22, 2012
Tags: cape canaveral, Elon Musk, Falcon 9 rocket, florida, International Space Station, John Holdren, launch, NASA, richard branson, spacecraft, SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular, middle-of-the-night blastoff. The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule marked the first time a [...]
Google completes Motorola Mobility acquisition
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 22, 2012
Tags: android, Business, DoubleClick Inc., google, motorola, Motorola Mobility acquisition, shares, software, stock market, takeover, Technology, trading
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet’s most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing. The deal closed Tuesday, nine months after Google Inc. made a surprise announcement that it wanted to [...]
Ellicott City-based A-TEK snags $20B NIH deal
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: a-tek, ellicott city, IT, maryland, national institutes of health, nih, services
Ellicott City-based A-TEK has been awarded a technology contract with the National Institutes of Health valued at $20 billion over its 10-year term, the company reported. A-TEK provides scientific data management and enterprise IT services in the areas of national security and intelligence, life sciences, healthcare, and law enforcement. The company said the NIH contract [...]
O’Malley discusses medical innovation jobs
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: biopharmaceutical research, Creating Jobs, delaware gov. jack markell, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, gov. martin o'malley, innovation, jobs, medical, Research in Your Backyard: Developing Cures
Gov. Martin O’Malley joined the governors of Delaware and West Virginia in Baltimore on Friday to discuss how states have found biopharmaceutical research companies to be an important source of jobs, tax revenue and research spending. O’Malley took part in a clinical trials forum with Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray [...]
1st stem cell-based drug from local biotechnology company OK’d
BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: May 20, 2012
Tags: bone marrow transplant, c. randal mills, disease, Edward Tenthoff, gvhd, Health Care, medicine, osiris, Osiris Therapeutics inc., Piper Jaffray & Co, Prochymal drug, stem cell
A local biotechnology company has gained the world’s first regulatory approval for a stem cell-based drug. Columbia-based Osiris Therapeutics Inc. received approval last week in Canada for the use of its Prochymal drug to treat children with the potentially deadly graft-vs-host disease, or GvHD, a complication of bone marrow transplants. “We essentially have broken through [...]
Maryland teen wins award in science competition
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 18, 2012
Tags: award, competition, crownsville, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, jack thomas andraka, maryland, science, teenager
WASHINGTON — A Maryland teenager has won $75,000 for coming up with a screening method for early-stage pancreatic cancer. Jack Thomas Andraka of Crownsville, won this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The 15-year-old won for his work in the medicine and health sciences category. The two runners-up won $50,000 each. They are Ari [...]
TEDCO names stem cell research grantees
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: california institute of regenerative medicine, lou gehrig's disease, Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission, maryland stem cell research fund, Maryland Technology Development Corp., parkinson's disease, scientists
The Maryland Technology Development Corp. announced the names of Maryland-based scientists who will receive grants from the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund’s $12.4 million FY 2012 budget. The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission reviewed 179 grant applications before recommending 40 to TEDCO’s board of directors. Priority was given to proposals that focus on advancing regenerative [...]
Facebook CEO turns 28, IPO could be $100B gift
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 14, 2012
Tags: Apple, CEO, david kirkpatrick, disney, donald graham, facebook, ford, google, hoodie, initial public offering, kraft foods, mark zuckerberg, michael dell, Nasdaq, sheryl sandberg, social media, Steve Jobs, stock, techonomy, washington post co., yahoo!
NEW YORK — He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. Facebook’s chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network’s biggest week ever. The company is expected to start selling stock to the public for [...]
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