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Bmore Gives More raises more than $5M for local nonprofits [Links]

"Jamie McDonald, president of GiveCorps, said nearly $5.5 million was raised Tuesday."

‘Bmore Gives More’ surpasses $5M one-day goal [Baltimore Sun]: “Jamie McDonald, president of GiveCorps, said nearly $5.5 million was raised Tuesday.”
Emergent BioSolutions could invest up to $120M in Baltimore, CFO says [Baltimore Business Journal]: “We’ve had a really productive relationship with the city. They gave us a number of incentives back in 2009 and they, along with the state, have been working with us on additional incentives to expand our footprint in Baltimore and in Maryland and we see this as a good environment for us to expand our footprint.”
House of Representatives passes widely supported bill to fight patent trolls [The Verge]: “Under the Innovation Act, a patent complaint needs to list which patents and parts of patents are being infringed and name the offending products or processes, among other things.”

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