Archive for May, 2010

God gave you two ears but only one mouth.  Its implication is as relevant to businesses as it is to five year olds: Stop talking at your customers/prospects and start listening to what they need.  If your networking is not working, this may be the reason.

ANNAPOLIS – Anne Arundel County Council unanimously approved the $1.18 billion budget for FY 2011.  This retained many recommendations from County Executive Leopold such as furlough days and eliminated positions that lower spending by $6.5 million.

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GLEN BURNIE – ShopRite will open an 85,000 square foot store in the Chesapeake Square Shopping Center this fall.  This will be the eighth ShopRite store in the state and the first in Anne Arundel; the company expects it will create 200 jobs.

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ANNAPOLIS – international business service provider High Street Partners has begun offering services through a new Regional Operations Center, in Miami.  The office will serve as a support hub for clients requesting services throughout Latin America.

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BELTSVILLE – SunEdison has reached agreement with First Reserve Corporation to establish a joint venture which could provide for the acquisition of up to $1.5 billion in current and future SunEdison solar photovoltaic energy projects.  SunEdison, the solar energy development division of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., has 350 solar electric power plants constructed and under management.

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COLUMBIA – Tresys Technology announced the availability of release 4.0 of its File Sanitization Tool (FiST), a solution for the challenges of USB drives and other removable media in high risk DoD environments.

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ANNAPOLIS – Semantic Web platform OpenAmplify received 13th and 14th patents in Natural Language Processing and position the company among firms wanting to enhance online engagement.

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COLUMBIA – A new offering from Sourcefire enables the Sourcefire intrusion prevention system to inspect SSL (secure sockets layer) traffic and block malicious traffic that would have previously been masked by encryption.

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QUEENSTOWN – Washington real estate investment and development firm Akridge and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) staged the third Save the Bay Classic, achieving the largest turnout with 173 golfers and bringing in 50 percent more in money for CBF to continue its mission.

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ANNAPOLIS – iJET Intelligent Risk Systems launched an online public resource page communicating the latest intelligence and information about Iceland’s volcano eruption and ensuing ash cloud. With this iJET will assist travelers and businesses in navigating air travel disruptions caused by this event.

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