Sandy floods Hopkins research building // Hunt Valley station owner reports $26M Q3 profit // Time to update your terms of service? [Links]

Your terms of service may no longer pass court muster [Baltimore Sun]: “Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer, lost a court battle in trying to defend its Terms of Service language from lawyers who are suing the company for losing the online data of 24 million customers.”

Sandy floods basement of Hopkins cancer research building [Baltimore Brew]: “A Johns Hopkins Medicine building where cutting-edge oncology research is conducted suffered basement flooding Monday night during “superstorm” Sandy.”
Sinclair Broadcast, Hunt Valley TV-station owners, reports $26M profit in Q3 [Baltimore Business Journal]: “Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.’s third-quarter earnings grew 36 percent, boosted by a record level of spending on political advertisements.”
500 Startups Chooses 33 Companies for Fifth Accelerator Batch [TechCrunch]: “This group is the first through which 500 Startups used an open application process, rather than rely solely on referrals when evaluating participants.”