Paragon Bioservices is opening a manufacturing facility near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport that the company says will create 150 job. The biologics contract development and manufacturing organization said the new facility will help the firm employ 500 people in ...

Chicago-based investment firm Ariel Investments said it purchased copies of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” books to distribute to attendees at a 2013 leadership conference where she was speaking. Ariel purchased 400 copies of the book for $3,680, including $80 ...

The Baltimore-based Cordish Companies and Comcast Spectacor today announced plans for a $50 million esports and entertainment venue at the Philadelphia Sports Complex. What the companies called a first-of-its-kind venue will seat up to 3,500 guests and stand as the largest new-construction, ...

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The chief operating officer of the Maryland Transit Administration recently presented the MARC train system’s Camden Line as a viable option for getting to an Orioles game, despite the service’s lack of a return trip for more than 95 percent of ...

Four Johns Hopkins professors received grants through a fund created to help faculty put their research on a path to commercialization. The professors received grants between $25,000 and $100,000 from the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund. The fund allows $300,000 to ...

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There’s a little bit of hyperbole in this, but Accounting Today recently had some fun with what it called “the most flabbergasting questions from tax clients for tax season.” Some of these, which were collected by the Minnesota Society of ...

Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will be the commencement speaker at the University of Maryland, College Park this spring. Bloomberg is typically associated in Maryland with his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, one of ...

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Baltimore is among the best cities in the country for women in the tech industry, a report from SmartAsset said. The city ranks second on the list, which accounts for factors including the gender pay gap, income after housing costs, ...

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Morgan State University will create a blockchain program as part of a partnership with Silicon Valley fintech firm Ripple, the university announced Thursday. A five-year academic partnership with Ripple will allow Morgan to create the Center for the Study of ...

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McCormick & Co. has teamed up with IBM to use artificial intelligence in its flavor and food development, the firm announced Monday. The company will take hundreds of millions of data points developed from its more than 40 years of ...

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