The fifth-largest container shipping company in the world is beginning a weekly container service to the Port of Baltimore that could create nearly 600 new jobs for Maryland. German company Hapag-Lloyd is expected to bring up to 30,000 containers through ...

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NEW YORK — Barnes & Noble said Tuesday that its fiscal third-quarter net income fell 14 percent, as rising costs offset higher sales. The company also said it will introduce a cheaper Nook Tablet. In its latest salvo in the ...

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A Maryland company has received national recognition for its work in developing fast-charging, high-powered batteries that use cutting-edge nanotechnology. Vorbeck Materials Corp. of Jessup was one of three winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator ...

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BRANDYWINE HUNDRED, Del. — A Delaware business group, grown on high-tech innovations to ease customer frustrations with mail-in rebates, is taking its nationwide service area to the global level. The Ohana Companies of Brandywine Hundred, focused on Internet-based rebates and ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The city of Wilmington has locked down a charter bus company found in violation of federal safety standards. The shutdown of Double Happyness Inc., which provides low-cost service to New York and Baltimore, comes more than a ...

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NEW YORK — Apple has again surpassed Exxon as the most valuable U.S. company after an excellent quarter. Apple Inc.’s stock rose nearly 6 percent to $445.29 in midday trading Wednesday, bringing the iPhone and iPad maker’s market capitalization to ...

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Though it was the party that brought the lawsuit, videogame-maker Bethesda Softworks LLC has agreed to pay $2 million to a West Coast competitor it accused of infringing on its trademark for the lucrative “Fallout” series depicting a violent post-nuclear ...

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A foreign telecommunications company has been ordered to pay its Linthicum Heights-based business partner more than $45 million after taking investment funds to build a cellphone network in Iraq and then backing out on the deal. Judge Timothy J. McCrone ...

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Lockheed Martin Corp.’s profit slipped 10 percent in the second quarter as the aerospace and defense contractor dealt with severance pay matters and increased pension costs. But the company’s results managed to top analysts’ expectations, and its revenue climbed despite ...

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A Baltimore Internet communications company has secured about $750,000 in its first round of external funding, top executives said, adding that the investment highlights the city’s growing taste for technological development. 410 Labs — which this month released to the ...

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