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VIRGINIA
Apptix , a Herndon company that hosts e-mail and messaging systems for small and mid-size companies, plans to announce today that it has acquired Mi8 of New York, which provides similar services for larger companies. The $21 million deal makes Apptix the largest Microsoft reseller of its kind in the United States.
Pace Harmon is the new name of SourcePoint LLC, a Vienna consulting company that advises companies on major technology projects.
Backfence.com of Vienna, which develops "hyperlocal" Web sites with neighborhood information posted by users, said it will launch sites in suburban Chicago later this month.
MARYLAND
Celsion, a troubled Columbia biotechnology company, announced that Lawrence Olanoff, its president and chief executive, will depart in October and return to his previous employer, Forest Laboratories. Anthony P. Deasey, Celsion's chief financial officer and chief operating officer, will serve as interim chief executive until the position is filled.
The company has said it faces delisting from the American Stock Exchange unless it can comply by Dec. 14 with standards for minimum shareholder equity and finances.
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Patton Boggs LLP said it added a new construction projects, infrastructure and finance practice to extend the law firm's work in handling large projects such as convention centers, highways and buildings domestically and internationally.
King & Spalding said James K. Vines, the U.S. attorney in Nashville, will join the firm's D.C. office in November as a partner in its tort and environmental litigation group. Vines was a law clerk to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
