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Howard County health care software firm expands...

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Howard County-based Healthcare Interactive Inc. has raised $3.4 million to bring on more clients for its health care planning business. The new funding is an add-on to the company’s Series A round and was led by the Maryland Venture Fund, the state’s venture capital arm. Previous investors Grotech Ventures and Harbert Management Corp. also participated. The new funding brings Healthcare Interactive’s total Series A to $11.8 million. The Glenwood company raised about $8 million of the round…

Walmart sues Visa over chip debit card rules

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Walmart is suing Visa because it wants to require customers using new debit cards to enter a PIN when making a purchase.



from http://www.wbaltv.com/money/walmart-sues-visa-over-chip-debit-card-rules/39489926

Vaccaro's Italian Pastry Shop offering 60-cent...

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Head over to any of the Vaccaro’s Italian Pastry Shop locations on Thursday for their 60-cent cannolis, a deal the desserts-maker will offer on the second Thursday of each month for the rest of the year.

Vaccaro’s is bringing back the promotion in response to the popularity of a similar deal the…

Google bans all ads for payday loans

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Ads for payday loans are no longer welcome on Google.



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Half-price cheeseburgers at Sonic on Wednesday

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Fill up on half-price cheeseburgers at Sonic Drive-In on Wednesday, May 11.

No coupon is necessary, but mention the offer when ordering. The limit is five burgers and fixins’ cost extra.

Also, get a free medium slush by downloading the Sonic app, and sip 99 cent large drinks and slushes until 10…

Union to represent 35,000 Uber drivers in New York...

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A union has gotten its foot in the door at Uber for the first time.



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Macy's is in serious trouble

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Donald Trump may have reason to gloat on Twitter again about the latest troubles facing Macy’s – the iconic retailer that dumped Trump’s clothing line last year.



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WorkShop Development unloads BJ's Wholesale Club...

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WorkShop Development LLC recently sold the land that holds a new BJ’s Wholesale Club warehouse in the red-hot Canton landscape for $23.5 million. The buyer was Baltimore Wholesale D.S.T., real estate investors who make up a division of Oak Brook, Ill.-based real estate investment trust IRC Retail Centers, formerly Inland Real Estate Corp. The 90,300-square-foot BJ’s opened in November on the site of a former paint company warehouse owned by Lenmar Corp. Baltimore-based WorkShop purchased the 6.59-acre…

Free book from Barnes & Noble summer reading...

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Kids can get a free book from the Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Triathlon program kicking off May 17.

Kids in grades 1-6 fill out a few questions on the reading journal and turn in the form at stores and pick a free book from a list of age-appropriate titles.

Print the journal at the link below…

8 things you need to know this morning

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Happy Wednesday! Expect another day of mostly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid-60s. Here are eight things to know. • Marylanders seeking an income tax break will have to wait at least another year after Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday nixed the idea of holding a special session of the General Assembly. [Baltimore Sun] • Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is banning all city-sponsored travel to North Carolina and Mississippi in the wake of legislation widely criticized as being anti-gay. [Fox…