News in Virginia
AOL-Google revenue-sharing pact includes mobile, online video services -
AOL and Google announced Thursday a five-year renewal of their revenue-sharing pact, which will now include mobile search and online video, two areas that AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong called critical to the future of his company as it tries to revamp and return to profitability.
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Metro will undertake one of the largest maintenance projects in the history of the 34-year-old rail system during Labor Day weekend, shutting down five stations on the eastern end of the Red Line.
Red Line - United States - Home - Transportation - Counties Crash of Va. computer network has implications for tech world, state politics -
RICHMOND -- The data storage unit that failed in a warehouse outside of Richmond last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies for more than a week, is a ubiquitous bit of technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country.
Politics - United States - Transportation - Aviation - Accidents SAIC reports 54 percent growth in second-quarter profit -
Government contractor Science Applications International Corp. says its second-quarter profit grew nearly 54 percent as it refocused its business on key growth areas, such as cybersecurity, energy and health.
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More Americans plan to travel over the Labor Day weekend this year than last -- including almost 790,000 in the Washington region -- but those on the East Coast might think twice if tropical weather bears down by Friday.
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