Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) articles from September 2001

Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) archives from September 2001

Boulder, Colo.-Area Tech Leaders Sound Off on Compaq, Hewlett-Packard Merger.
September 5, 2001... Byline: Erika Stutzman Sep. 5--It would be impossible to hold a marriage between two computing giants, and not have tech firms all over the country either hopeful for an invite, or ready to fire off an opinion on the pairing. The...

Boulder, Colo.-Based Maker of Data-Storage Products Hopes for Turnaround.
September 5, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 5--Tuesday was the 30th consecutive business day that shares of Exabyte Corp. stock closed below $1 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, a mark that could eventually risk the data storage firm's status on the exchange....

Boulder, Colo.-Based Data Storage Company to Acquire California Firm.
September 6, 2001... Byline: Katie Ford Sep. 6--McData announced an acquisition Wednesday it hopes will help open doors for the company in the storage network management market. After recently expanding into the storage network management arena with the...

McGraw-Hill Division Picks Up Boulder, Colo., Research Firm.
September 6, 2001... Byline: Erika Stutzman Sep. 6--A division of publishing giant McGraw-Hill announced Wednesday that it acquired Boulder's FT Energy, an information and consulting firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Platts is the New York-based...

Athene Software in Boulder, Colo., Cuts 60 Employees.
September 6, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 6--What started out as a mandatory two-week unpaid furlough for 60 employees at Athene Software in mid-August has turned into a layoff, a company spokesman confirmed Wednesday. The Boulder company's board of...

Broomfield, Colo.-Based Firm To Make Beer Cans for Coors.
September 7, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 7--Ball Corp. would help Coors Brewing Co. manufacture and supply 4.5 billion beer cans annually under a letter of intent signed between the two Thursday. The deal is expected to boost production levels for...

Fitness Companies Place Joint Bid on Boulder-Based Schwinn.
September 7, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 7--Direct Focus and Pacific Cycle submitted a joint bid for all of Schwinn/GT Corp.'s assets Thursday. With the bid, Pacific Cycle would purchase Schwinn/GT's cycling assets while Direct Focus would buy the...

Bankruptcy Judge Allows Joint Bid on Boulder, Colo., Firm's Fitness Assets.
September 8, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 8--DENVER--The bankruptcy judge overseeing the auction of Schwinn/GT Corp.'s cycling assets reaffirmed Friday he will allow a joint bid from Direct Focus and Pacific Cycle during Monday's auction. The...

Boulder, Colo., Hardware Store Begins Liquidation.
September 11, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 11--Hugh M. Woods is liquidating its Boulder store as part of a nationwide closure of the chain of "do-it-yourself" hardware stores, bankrupt parent company Payless Cashways Inc. said Monday. "It's a very...

Providence, R.I.-Based Translating Company Speaks Language of Growth.
September 11, 2001... Byline: Erika Stutzman Sep. 11--Though the official name for the Web indicates it's worldwide, for non-English speakers, it so far has been a pretty small world. But as it matures, a burgeoning market for translation services has...

Boulder, Colo., Retailers Open to Slow Sales After Trade Center Attacks.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 13--As consumers became glued to television newscasts of Tuesday's horrific attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, local business sales came to a halt and weren't quite back to normal Wednesday. "We...

Schwinn/GT Sold for $151 Million.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 13--DENVER--Pacific Cycle and Direct Focus will pay $151 million for all of Schwinn/GT Corp.'s assets. The deal -- expected to close by Sept. 21 -- will send the well-known cycling division of Schwinn/GT from...

Sun Microsystems Loses Worker in Plane Crash; Colorado Firms Try to Regroup.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Erika Stutzman Sep. 13--Local companies said they spent Wednesday trying to get back to work as after a very unusual day. For one business with operations in Boulder County, grieving for a fellow employee came first. Sun...

Grounded Planes Force Boulder, Colo., Businesses to Seek Alternatives.
September 13, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 13--Michael Gutstein can't fill all of his 400 florist customers' orders. His shipment from Chicago is in Toledo, his California shipment is somewhere in Las Vegas and his Holland shipment was returned to the...

Boulder, Colo., Online Greeting-Card Service Sells for $35 Million.
September 14, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 14--BlueMountain.com has been sold again, but this time there's no billion-dollar deal. The free online greeting card service sold Thursday for 96 percent less than what it commanded when ExciteAtHome bought it...

Law Firms Raise Money for New York, Washington Victims.
September 15, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 15--While airplanes toppled two World Trade Center buildings and a part of the Pentagon on Tuesday, Robert Brown sat 2,000 miles away figuring out how to help. The attorney wrote a check to the American Red...

Firm Buys Boulder, Colo.-Based Software Company.
September 15, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 15--The company that considered its products innovative enough to name itself after the Greek goddess of wisdom sold its software assets and intellectual property to an Englewood-based company late last week. ...

Colorado Stocks Fall as Market Drops, Present Bargain Prices.
September 18, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 18--The stock market suffered the hit investors and analysts expected to see on Monday, but the day's activity saw little panic and should present bargain prices for stocks, experts said. The Dow Jones...

Economic Experts See Recession Ahead for U.S.
September 18, 2001... Sep. 18--Last week's terrorist acts on the East Coast have likely pushed the country closer to a recession, two regional economists said Monday. Both said they believe such a recession, driven by sagging consumer confidence, should be...

Women's Mail-Order Sportswear Company Readies Boulder, Colo., Store.
September 19, 2001... Byline: Doug Brines Sep. 19--Title Nine Sports, a mail-order business specializing in women's sports clothing, plans to open a store on Pearl Street this fall, a few blocks east of the pedestrian mall. The Boulder store will be the...

Boulder, Colo., Gun Sales Up after Twin Towers, Pentagon Attacks.
September 21, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 21--While Boulder County grieved for thousands of lives lost in last week's terrorist attacks, some wiped their tears long enough to buy guns and ammunition, several local store owners said. At High Country...

Boulder, Colo., Alliance Showcases Writers.
September 24, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 24--Free-lance writer Cassy Matthews was searching for work when she noticed a Boulder Writers Alliance e-mail job listing for a ghostwriter. The marketing writer says she jumped at the chance for something...

Colorado Aviation Businesses Worry about Future amid Flight Bans.
September 25, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 25--Jim Kent has an airplane grounded in La Junta and can't fly his two other planes for scheduled maintenance. But the owner of South Weld Ag, a Weld County-based aerial spraying company, has bigger worries. ...

Exempla Healthcare Decides Not to Build Hospital in Broomfield, Colo.
September 25, 2001... Byline: Katie Ford Sep. 25--BROOMFIELD, Colo.--A Broomfield location was second on the list of sites that Exempla looked at for a planned 175-bed facility. Exempla Healthcare is planning to build a $170 million hospital in the...

Hospital Proposal Gets Nod from Lafayette, Colo., Planning Commission.
September 25, 2001... Byline: Justin George Sep. 25--LAFAYETTE, Colo.--The city Planning Commission unanimously approved a preliminary plan Monday night for a hospital that would be twice the size of Avista Adventist in nearby Louisville. More than 100...

Boulder, Colo., Technology-Industry Luncheon Canceled.
September 26, 2001... Byline: Erika Stutzman Sep. 26--Local business events continue to be canceled and postponed in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Most recently, the Colorado Technology Fast 50 pulled the plug on its event, scheduled for Oct. 5...

Developer Offers Residential-Business Plan for Boulder, Colo., Area.
September 27, 2001... Byline: Susan Glairon Sep. 27--While many retail projects are being curtailed because of the sinking economy, a local developer is proposing a mixed-use development in Gunbarrel that could break ground as early as next fall. Dubbed...

Denver Beer Festival Features Beers from Around the World.
September 28, 2001... Byline: Matt Branaugh Sep. 28--DENVER--Growth, maturation and stability -- each word was on the tips of several specialty beer experts' tongues Thursday at the 20th Annual Great American Beer Festival. And through Saturday night at the...

Firm Lays Off 60 at Longmont, Colo., Manufacturing Division.
September 29, 2001... Byline: Michael Cote Sep. 29--Sheldahl Inc. said Friday it temporarily laid off 60 of its 90 workers in its International Flex Technologies manufacturing division in Longmont, but it hopes to begin hiring some of them back as early as...

Boulder, Colo.-Based Software Firm Can Reduce Business Communications Cost.
September 29, 2001... Byline: Anthony Lane Sep. 29--A mannequin in the reception area of Boulder-based bConnected Software supervises a computer screen. The screen displays a running tally of transactions on which the company's software has saved clients money....