CULVER CITY, Calif. — YouTube is enlisting Hollywood’s help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes. The online video giant is aiming to create 25 hours of programming per day with the help of ...

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ANNAPOLIS — An ethics panel of state senators is recommending that local government officials should not be required to release as much information in financial disclosure forms as officials in state government. Under the proposal discussed Friday, local officials would ...

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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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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland State Lottery Agency hopes to make more money, get more exposure and have more people playing when it takes ticket sales online, said lottery Director Stephen Martino. According to its fiscal 2013 budget, the lottery anticipates ...

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FREEPORT, Maine — Back in the days before retailers like Gap, J. Crew or American Outfitters, there were guys like L.L. Bean, Eddie Bauer, David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch. In Maine, L.L. Bean found success without consumer research, focus groups ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A new ethics panel of seven state senators will consider posting Maryland lawmakers’ financial disclosure statements online and establishing sanctions that could include fines for ethical transgressions, the panel’s chairman said Friday during the group’s first meeting. Sen. ...

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SEATTLE — Online retailer Amazon says 2011 was the best holiday ever for its Kindle-brand e-readers and tablet computers. Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday that people bought more than 1 million Kindles each week in December. The company has never released ...

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NEW YORK — I’ve often joked that if something’s not on Facebook, it didn’t happen. Facebook’s new Timeline feature makes that adage even more apparent. Timeline is Facebook’s new way of presenting you to the world. It replaces your traditional ...

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NEW YORK — Neil Ylanan eats for a living and travels constantly as a food expert for a company that supplies in-flight meals to airlines. Toss in those sleepless, sluggish early years of fatherhood — he’s got three young kids ...

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WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s top-grossing radio stations announced plans Wednesday to reorganize and expand its Washington newsroom to make online news as high a priority as radio and in some cases break news online first. Washington’s WTOP Radio ...

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