Microsoft sells AOL patents on to Facebook

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 23, 2012
Tags: AOL, Business, facebook, IBM Corp., lawsuits, licenses, microsoft, patents, sale

NEW YORK — Microsoft, which just bought patents from AOL for $1 billion, is now turning around and selling most of them to Facebook for $550 million. Facebook is buying about 650 of the 925 AOL patents and patent applications that Microsoft bought, Microsoft and Facebook said Monday. Facebook will also get a license to [...]

P.G. County liquor store owner sentenced in corruption scheme

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: December 20, 2011
Tags: alcohol, amrik melhi, bribery, campaign donations, corruption, jack johnson, licenses, liquor store, permits, Prince George's County

GREENBELT — The owner of several Prince George’s County liquor stores has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in a corruption scheme that involved former county executive Jack Johnson. Fifty-two-year-old Amrik Melhi was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 10 months in prison. He pleaded guilty in June to conspiring [...]

Del., Md., want to coordinate scrap metal data

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 3, 2011
Tags: delaware, delmarva peninsula, Eastern Shore, licenses, maryland, maryland state police, scrap metal, scrap metal sales

SALISBURY — State police in Maryland and Delaware have teamed up with hopes of sharing data on scrap metal sales and cracking down on the trade in stolen metal on the peninsula. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports that Maryland’s state system for tracking property information, including scrap metal, helped Delaware State Police draft legislation [...]

Some state permitting to be streamlined for businesses

BY: Nicholas Sohr
POSTED: January 27, 2011
Tags: Christian Johansson, dbed, Department of Business and Economic Development, department of natural resources, department of the environment, gov. o'malley, licenses, maryland, maryland department of transportation, monitoring, permits, Small business, streamlined

ANNAPOLIS — Gov. Martin O’Malley will announce Friday plans to allow businesses to apply for and monitor review of the litany of permits and licenses required in Maryland, and streamline some application processes that have grown increasingly byzantine. “Small businesses, when they go through these processes, have to navigate this map by themselves,” said Shaun [...]