by Aliza Friedlander | Mar 28, 2018 | Business, News
Lauren Shapiro and Matthew Mittleman know firsthand about the excitement and fears of parenthood. Now, the married couple – who are Baltimore natives and parents of almost 2-year-old Lexi — are hoping their new company, CollapseAndGo, alleviates some of those... read more
by JTA | Mar 22, 2018 | Business, National, News
(JTA) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to growing pressure on the social media company, following reports that a British company used information inappropriately collected from 50 million accounts while working for the Trump presidential campaign. Zuckerberg... read more
by Peter Arnold | Mar 19, 2018 | Business, International, Israel, Local, Local Politics, Maryland, National, News, Politics
Seven decades in the life and times of a nation is something to celebrate. Over the next five months — in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Frederick, Howard and Montgomery counties — the Maryland/Israel Development Center will present “Start Up Nation: Israel’s... read more
by JTA | Feb 1, 2018 | Business, International, Israel, News
(JTA) — Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has acquired an Israeli startup that collects data from bar taps. The deal to buy the startup Weissbeerger, according to a Monday article in the Israeli business publication Calcalist, is worth tens of millions... read more
by Aliza Friedlander | Jan 3, 2018 | Business, News
Isaac Kornbluth is like most kids his age. A Krieger Schechter Day School fourth-grader, he spends his days going to school, playing sports and hanging out with his friends and three younger siblings. But unlike other 9-year-olds, Isaac is well on his way to becoming... read more
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Dec 26, 2017 | Baltimore, Business, Local, Maryland, News, Pikesville
The Suburban House restaurant — a culinary touchstone for generations of local lovers of delicatessen cuisine for nearly eight decades — recently closed its doors at its 1700 Reisterstown Road location of seven years. A simple, hand-written... read more
by Ethan McLeod | Dec 15, 2017 | Business, FROM OUR PARTNERS, News
Amtrak has chosen a team of largely Baltimore-area developers, architects, contractors and others to handle Baltimore Penn Station’s much-awaited renovation. Beatty Development Group, Cross Street Partners, Gensler, RK&K and Cho Benn Holback are among the local... read more
by Peter Arnold | Dec 7, 2017 | Business, Local, Maryland, News
Increasing safety in Baltimore and around the nation was a key theme of the Dec. 6 event “Technologies of the Future: Autonomous Vehicles, Robots and More.” The gathering was presented by the Maryland/Israel Development Center — a a public-private partnership... read more
by Ben Sales, JTA | Nov 26, 2017 | Business, News
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (JTA) — Before she boarded the plane from Israel to Silicon Valley, Darya Henig Shaked already was bucking stereotypes of women in tech. Among married Israeli techies in the Bay Area, it’s assumed that the man in the marriage was the one who... read more
by JTA | Nov 22, 2017 | Business, National, News
NEW YORK (JTA) — A year after Facebook vowed to stamp out discriminatory advertising, landlords can still exclude specific races, minorities and other categories of people from seeing rental ads on the social media site. ProPublica bought dozens of rental housing ads... read more