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• Orioles hopeful Baltimore will host MLB All-Star Game 'soon,' John Angelos says

  18-03-2015 19:50 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Baltimore Orioles executive John P. Angelos said Wednesday he is hopeful the the team will once again host the MLB All-Star Game "soon."
  
  Angelos' comments come two months after the league passed over Baltimore's bid to host the 2016 All-Star Game in favor of San Diego. The Orioles had been considered a favorite to host that game, but many thought the team lost its edge after being locked in a hotly contested media rights dispute with the Washington Nationals.
  
  Angelos said the decision on futur
  
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• Integrata CEO Michael Geppi stepping down after Larry Hogan appointment

  18-03-2015 19:31 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Integrata Security CEO Michael Geppi been named an under secretary in the state health department and the Columbia cyber firm is bringing on a new president.
  
  Geppi was appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan to serve as deputy secretary for operations at the state health department. His first day is March 23.
  
  Meanwhile Integrata, the security company Geppi founded in 2012, has named as Ari Tuchman president of the company. Tuchman has more than two decades experience in technology commercialization. Gep
  
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• KEYW buys 2 Baltimore-area cyber firms

  18-03-2015 19:01 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  KEYW Holding Corp. purchased two small cyber security firms since the beginning of the year and will move to create a new business group focused on emerging markets and technologies, it said Wednesday.
  
  Hanover-based KEYW (NASDAQ: KEYW) acquired Ponte Technologies LLC of Ellicott City and Milestone Intelligence Group Inc. of Hanover. It purchased Ponte on Friday and Milestone on Jan. 16 in separate deals. The company has yet to provide financial terms for either acquisition.
  
  The deals provide m
  
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• Stephanie Rawlings-Blake defends Under Armour boot donation

  18-03-2015 17:43 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday dismissed the idea that recent equipment donations could buy Under Armour Inc. influence at Baltimore City Hall.
  
  "Some people, when they see something good, they cannot just look at it as something good," she said. "They have to find something wrong with it."
  
  Rawlings-Blake answered a question on equipment donations shortly after the city's Board of Estimates approved a donation to the Baltimore City Fire Department from Under Armour (NYSE: UA). The
  
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• Under Armour to sponsor Charles Street 12 road race

  18-03-2015 17:24 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Under Armour Inc. will be the presenting sponsor of the Charles Street 12 road race in September.
  
  The Sept. 5 event, now in its third year, will be branded with Under Armour signage throughout the course, and participants in the 12-mile race will receive Under Armour-branded long-sleeve shirts.
  
  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  
  The sponsorship comes at a time when Under Armour is looking to make strides in the running market.
  
  "Under Armour is dedicated to the running category and this is
  
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• NIH to end leases, return thousands of employees to Bethesda campus

  18-03-2015 16:54 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Thousands of National Institutes of Health employees may be headed home.
  
  The revised master plan for the 310-acre NIH campus in Bethesda proposes to return more than 2,600 personnel in off-campus leased space to the sprawling site over the next two decades. Another 651 new staff may be hired, hiking the campus population by more than 3,000.
  
  "Over the next 20 years, there are many opportunities to transform the Bethesda Campus into a more efficient and vibrant place," states the final plan, und
  
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• CareFirst is defying a D.C. order to reinvest $56M in surplus

  18-03-2015 16:05 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield has no plans to follow an order by D.C.'s insurance agency to reinvest $56 million of its overall surplus toward community benefits in the District.
  
  In a report filed Monday with the D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking, CareFirst said it has already fulfilled its obligations in the District and won't comply. CareFirst said it filed an appeal in the Court of Appeals for D.C.
  
  The Owings Mills-based insurer said its overall surplus belongs to subscr
  
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• Hollow Creek Golf Club's new owner wants to introduce kids to golf

  18-03-2015 15:38 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  The Hollow Creek Golf Club in Frederick County sold for $2.15 million at auction this month to a Montgomery County man who wants to encourage more young people to play golf.
  
  Victor Liu, who was a golf course developer in China, is making his first investment in a U.S. course with the purchase of the Middletown golf course and club. The deal is expected to close in mid-May.
  
  Liu, a father of three, said he thinks more American kids should learn to play golf. He sees lots of courses in the area b
  
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• Microsoft to kill Internet Explorer, the black sheep of internet browsers

  18-03-2015 12:24 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  Microsoft is trying on some new names for its yet-to-be-released successor to the infamous Internet Explorer web browser.
  
  The Verge reported Microsoft's marketing chief Chris Capossela announced the move at the Convergence Conference in Atlanta on Monday.
  
  The company previously announced that Windows 10 would ship with two browsers: Internet Explorer to keep enterprise users with compatibility needs happy, and something codenamed "Project Spartan" for average users.
  
  The Spartan browser, which
  
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• Starbucks' 'Race Together' campaign faces angry backlash on Twitter

  18-03-2015 12:18 via feeds.bizjournals.com
  
  The Starbucks' #RaceTogether hashtag is trending on Twitter, getting the amount of public attention CEO Howard Schultz hoped for. But it may not be the kind of attention Starbucks was aiming for — nearly all of the tweets mentioning the campaign are lashing out at Starbucks.
  
  Starbucks announced Race Together with a full-page ad in the New York Times Sunday. The company is trying to get people in the U.S. to talk about race relations by holding employee forums and encouraging baristas to write
  
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