San Diego Business Journal articles from March 2002

San Diego Business Journal archives from March 2002

Local boat aids Navy search for plane: Congressional hearing provides glimpse of SWATH's effectiveness.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... CHULA VISTA - Crews on a locally built Navy boat have been surveying the Indian Ocean near the island of Diego Garcia for an Air Force B-1B bomber that went down during Operation Enduring Freedom. The 40-foot-long craft left North Island...

Super-sized preparations begin for game.(Super Bowl XXXVII)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... As the most publicized sporting event of the year heads to San Diego in January, plans for its framework have begun. Expected to bring in thousands of visitors, Super Bowl XXXVII takes place at Qualcomm Stadium on Jan. 26. Ky Snyder,...

South Koreans eye local bio investment.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... South Korean delegates got a warm reception from local venture capitalists, public relations executives and community leaders who could benefit from that nation's planned $7 million investment in a biotechnology park in Carlsbad. Several...

Commercial construction likely to rebound in '02.(according to Burnham Real Estate Services)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Though the number of commercial real estate projects completed countywide in 2001 dropped from 2000's totals, local experts still have a positive outlook for this year. Commercial builders finished fewer projects in 2001, but those...

Coaxial cables keeps RFI connected to corporate success. (Enterprise: Manufacturing).
March 4, 2002... Howard Hill and his partners thought they had it made, selling a new contraption called the cellular telephone at their small San Diego company, Celltronics. It was the mid-1980s and the wireless industry was still in its infancy, but...

City's Ethics Commission laying down its law; Government: Newly formed panel seeks passage of City's Prop. B.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Charlie Walker, the first executive director for San Diego's Ethics Commission, says the vast majority of elected officials are honest, but he's not naive. "There will be those, from time to time, who push the envelope and commit a crime,"...

Money likely to flood health care firms in '02; Finance: Despite lots of cash, funding unlikely to come easy.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Venture capital funds raised a record $5.3 billion for health care in 2001, but biotech leaders will be in fierce competition to attract funding. "The competition for capital is intense and growing," John Chambers, managing director for...

SDG&E Power line plans could lead to nowhere; Electric: Projects slated for completion in 2003 could cost close to $58 million.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... San Diego Gas & Electric Co. says two new projects it's planning for South County could save customers $26.2 million in 2004. However, critics say ratepayers could be stuck paying for a $58 million power line that might not connect to...

Internet makes biz property tax filing easier. (Small Business & Retail).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The county assessor has made it easier and more convenient for some small businesses to file their business property statements using e-filing. The new program, launched Feb. 20, allows small-business taxpayers to go online and file at the...

Straight talk. (Small Business & Retail).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Small businesses and others will have a chance to find out what state legislators are doing to help solve key issues affecting the San Diego region. The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce is hosting "Straight Talk from Sacramento"...

Chamber hosts meeting with state lawmakers. (Small Business & Retail).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... More On The Chamber: The San Diego chamber also is hosting several other events this month. On March 6, the chamber will host "Get Connected." This session will cover how to use cell phone and Internet technology to grow your business. The...

Just the Facts. (Small Business & Retail).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Small businesses now have a new resource to find out about population, land area, demographic data and more. The San Diego Book of Facts is a service from the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. A link on their Web site offers a...

Local real estate Web site eyes national market: Exec at HouseRebate.com claims company had first profitable month in January.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... HouseRebate.com, a discount real estate brokerage operating in San Diego County, plans to make its business national next month. Brian Yui, CEO of HouseRebate, started the company in November 1999. Yui was previously vice president of...

AIGA conference features Swiss designer as speaker. (Media & Marketing).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... With a theme of "Lucky 7" highlighting the fact that it's their seventh one, the local chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts recently held their annual "Y Design" conference. According to event Chairman Adam Rowe, close to 450...

Clear Channel names program director for KMYI-FM. (Media & Marketing).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... New Program Director: Local Clear Channel Communications executives recently named a new program director at KMYI-FM, the company's recently reformatted '80s and '90s station in San Diego. Duncan Payton, whose first day was Feb. 25, came...

Status chart. (Media & Marketing).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The Townsend Agency recently signed PC-Ephone, Inc., a San Diego-based company that has the rights in the United States and Canada to sell the product, a wireless device that has qualitites of a computer, telephone and electronic or ganizer....

Sound bites. (Media & Marketing).
March 4, 2002... The public relations department at SeaWorld San Diego and the other eight theme parks owned by St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. recently won "Corporate Team of the Year" from industry magazine PR Week. The deadline for the next Media &...

Path 1, SAIC join forces in Internet video venture. (High-Tech).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Sending video by Internet is the specialty of Path 1 Network Technologies, a 55-employee company with principal offices in University City. The capability, called Video Over Internet Protocol, has been a Holy Grail for broadband carriers....

PacketVideo tunes up 'cellular TV' product. (High-Tech).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Take Three: "Carrier class" means rugged enough and reliable enough for telecom carriers to use in their systems. That's the label San Diego-based PacketVideo Corp. has put on the new, Version 3 of its multimedia products. Multimedia...

Instant fraud alert. (High-Tech).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Instant Fraud Alert: HNC Software Inc., the San Diego-based company making products that spot credit card fraud, has announced software that will contact a cardholder quickly when it spots a suspicious transaction. The contact could come...

For fender menders. (High-Tech).
March 4, 2002... Small-time auto body shops and insurance adjusters nationwide have gone to the Web to find an improved Version 1.5 of Mitchell International's estimate-writing software. Mitchell keeps its data center in San Diego and charges clients...

Columnar components. (High-Tech).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Columnar Components: Qualcomm Inc. ranks 28th nationally in work force training. So says Training Magazine, which considers the price tag as well as the other qualities of the programs. Top trainers are Pfizer Inc. and IBM.... The U.S. Army is...

Wireless firm gets high-profile help: Hitachi likes the signal sent out by Magis. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Magis Networks Inc. of San Diego has attracted another high-profile investor: Hitachi Ltd. Hitachi joins Motorola in funding Magis, a Carmel Valley company that designs and sells chips for short-range wireless communication. Magis...

Qualcomm buoyed by a bit of good news. (Cyber Bucks).
March 4, 2002... Qualcomm Inc. held an unusual press conference last week in an attempt to dispel a flurry of negative publicity that sent the stock into a nosedive that nearly reached the low for the past 52 weeks. At the latest conference, Qualcomm...

Titan announces Albuquerque firm as third acquisition of the year. (Cyber Bucks).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Titan Continues Buying Binge: Titan Corp. announced its third acquisition of the year last week in agreeing to purchase Science & Engineering Associates, Inc., based in Albuquerque, N.M. The deal, which is expected to close in the second...

The right plan. (Cyber Bucks).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The Right Plan: The board of directors of Lightspan, a maker of educational software traded on Nasdaq, approved a stockholder rights plan last week as a way of discouraging a possible hostile takeover of the company in the future. The...

New CEO. (Cyber Bucks).(Huntington Capital appoints Morgan Miller)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... New CEO: Huntington Capital, a San Diego-based investment firm focused on non-tech growth startups, named Morgan Miller as president and CEO. Miller, who has been a member of Huntington's board for the past two years, was a senior vice...

Local firm contends Bluetooth coming of age; Technology: Volume of chip production will be close to 100 million this year. (Tech Talk).(Silicon Wave Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... The room erupts in electronic chatter as Malachi Bierstein switches on a laptop computer. It's nothing you can hear. Yet it's something you see happening, as lines of type rapidly materialize on the computer display. Eighteen devices...

Gen-Probe blood screening system gets FDA OK. (Tech Talk).(Gen-Probe Inc. product receives approval from Food and Drug Administration)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... San Diego-based Gen-Probe Inc. said the Food and Drug Administration approved the company's Procleix blood-screening system for HIV and hepatitis C. Gen-Probe, a unit of Japanese drugmaker Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., which developed the...

Women First signs marketing deal for estrogen patch. (Tech Talk).(Women First HealthCare Inc., Caremark Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... Women First HealthCare, Inc. said Feb. 25 it signed a deal with a major pharmacy benefit manager to market its lead pharmaceutical product Esclim, an estrogen patch for menopausal women. Women First said Caremark Inc. is the country's...

Good news for Isis' psoriasis drug, Merck deal. (Biotech).(Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc., Merck & Co., Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Carlsbad-based biotechnology firm Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. said results of a 31patient study evaluating its experimental psoriasis cream, Isis 2302, were encouraging enough to follow up with additional testing. Isis last week presented...

Cypress launches Phase II tests for fibromyalgia syndrome. (Bio Tech).(Cypress Bioscience Inc.)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Cypress: The San Diego-based biotechnology firm Cypress Bioscience, Inc. said Feb. 25 it has launched a Phase II program to test a drug candidate in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome, a chronic pain condition. Cypress said it hopes to...

Gold Key Awards recognize the visitor industry.
March 4, 2002... Two major hotel organizations in town held their annual awards recently, and gave accolades to several individuals involved in the visitor industry. The event, called the Gold Key Awards, was sponsored by the San Diego County Hotel-Motel...

Travel agencies offer pros, cons about online booking: Process emphasizes agents' role as travel managers. (Special Report: Corporate Travel).(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... Trying to hit a moving target. It's how Van Anderson describes how travel agents look for the lowest prices for airline tickets. Anderson, co-president of Escondido-based Anderson Travel & Cruises, was referring to how the fares...

New technology helps prioritize business travel: Cost-Cutting innovations gaining advocates. (Special Report: Corporate Travel).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Corporate travel can be one of the most costly expenditures for many organizations. According to Rusty Carpenter, general manager of American Express Consulting, medium- to large-sized businesses spent $157 billion last year on travel. The...

Airlines serving Lindbergh Field.(Southwest Airlines tops list with most passengers)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... AIRLINES SERVING LINDBERGH FIELD Ranked by number of passengers carried in and out of San Diego from January through December 2001 * Jan.-Dec. 2001 Airline *...

Regional airports offer options to corporate travelers. (Special Report: Corporate Travel).(in San Diego County, California)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... Several regional airports provide options for the corporate aircraft that help sell meeting planners on San Diego. San Diego County runs eight regional airports, including the airport with the highest overall traffic count -...

Charters seen as alternative to commercial travel: What travelers should know before taking off. (Special Report: Corporate Travel).
March 4, 2002... The world of private air charter is an unfamiliar one for many travelers. A few pieces of insightful information can be very helpful when planning a private charter trip for the first time. Private charter is not always the best choice for...

Travel agencies.(ranked by 2001 airline ticket sales)(Directory)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... TRAVEL AGENCIES Headquartered in San Diego; ranked by 2001 airline ticket sales (*) Air ticket sales; ...

MSEL Program provides leadership with a purpose. (Executive Training Guide).(Master of Science in Executive Leadership program at University of San Diego)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Leadership defined: the ability to guide, direct, or influence people... Is that all there is to it? Although the dictionary may find the above to be an acceptable definition - I do not. I would describe it as leadership, ill-defined. But...

Education fit for an executive. (Executive Training Guide).
March 4, 2002... "Back to school was the last place I thought I would find myself," said Christine Shimasaki. As the executive vice president of sales and marketing for the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, Shimasaki wanted an education boost to elevate...

An executive graduate program targets ethics. (Executive Training Guide).(at Point Loma Nazarene University)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... If there is any clear message from the Enron scandal it's the need for business professionals to be able to grapple with questions not just of accounting and corporate structure, but of ethics. "Every MBA program should have some kind of...

Weathering the recession (and protecting your job) by managing change. (Executive Training Guide).
March 4, 2002... As economists and businesspeople nervously speculate on when the economy will turn around, some managers and executives are already preparing to reap the benefits of recovery. Their companies anticipate change instead of simply reacting to it,...

Prepare your business with emergency management training. (Executive Training Guide).
March 4, 2002... September 11 serves as a painful reminder that disaster can strike at any moment. The question is, what are local businesses doing to prepare for the next disaster? Organizations need to be prepared to protect employees and assets and still...

Distance learning can enhance and advance your business career. (Executive Training Guide).
March 4, 2002... Business professionals take various routes to enhance and advance their careers, including networking, increasing training, and committing themselves to learning entirely new skills that can translate into career advancement. One increasingly...

TableBed offers a new look in close quarters. (Real Estate).
March 4, 2002... Specializing in interior design for multifunctional spaces, San Diego-based Space Functional Interior Design Solutions Inc. is taking the TableBed on the road and getting a good response. The Table Bed is like a Murphy bed that pulls down...

Coldwell Banker acquiers Anthony Furlano Associates. (Real Estate).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Coldwell Banker Grows Again: Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage San Diego has acquired independent real estate brokerage Real Estate Plus-Anthony Furlano Associates. Furlano Associates, with 16 agents, will join the Coldwell Banker...

New team. (Real Estate).
March 4, 2002... New Team: A.W. Arendsee Real Estate, a commercial brokerage firm based in Downtown San Diego, has launched a retail leasing team. Arendsee oversees office leasing for Symphony Towers, the Chamber Building and other properties Downtown. ...

Prime consultant. (Real Estate).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Prime Consultant: LSW Engineers of San Diego is the prime engineering consultant under San Diego Gas & Electric Co. on a $14 million, 4.5-megawatt cogeneration plant at the Naval Medical Center in Balboa Park. Design is under way for the...

Marketing award. (Real Estate).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The Santaluz House by DMB/Taylor Woodrow Homes and iGallery at Ladera Ranch by DMB Ladera were awarded 2002 Silver Awards for best sales or information pavilion for a master-planned community at the National Association of Home Builders...

Breakfast of champions. (Real Estate).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The Home Builders Council of the Building Industry Association of San Diego County is hosting its annual "Breakfast of Champions," which looks at the future of the building industry. The event begins at 7:30 a.m. on March 7 at the La Jolla...

Building security. (Real Estate).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The San Diego chapters of the Institute of Real Estate Management and the Building Owners and Managers Association are hosting a luncheon meeting titled, "How Secure is Your Building?" Registration is at 11:30 a.m. and lunch begins at noon...

Hot deals.(announcements of office buildings bought, sold, and rented)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... REAL ESTATE SALES Property: 7481-81 Mohawk St., La Mesa Seller: La Mesa 78 Associates Selling agents: Peter Scepanovic of Colliers International represented the buyer. Steve Huffman and Jules Arthur of Hendricks & Partners...

San Diego public stocks. (Marketplace).(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... SAN DIEGO PUBLIC STOCKS Data as of 02/26/02 STOCK PRICE Price Performanc ...

Charlotte Russe Holding Inc. (Marketplace).(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)
March 4, 2002... Nasdaq -- CHIC Charlotte Russe Holding Inc. is a mall-based specialty retailer of fashionable, value-priced apparel and accessories targeting young women between the ages of 15 and 35. Value Total number of shares ...

Mortgage rates. (Marketplace).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... MORTGAGE RATES Feb. 14, 2002 LENDER RATE PTS APR TERM MAX LOAN FIXED RATE FIRSTS Fouts Financial 6.25 2.00 6.55 30 300700 Southwest Community Bank 6.25 2.00 6.55 30 300,700...

A lofty view of San Diego: Sleepless nights appear to be over for Doug Wilson as construction at the Ballpark Cranks up again. (Profile: Doug Wilson).
March 4, 2002... Despite the lengthy construction delay, Doug Wilson knew the Padres' Downtown ballpark would be completed. While he maintains he held his confidence over the 16 months that work at the ballpark was stalled, Wilson still had a few sleepless...

Star-Spangled banner proudly waves at airport exhibit. (Newsmakers).(Flags Across the Nation organized exhibition of U.S. flags to tour the country)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Travelers boarding through Terminal 2 East at Lindbergh Field are greeted by the spirit of patriotism when they pass a wall that pays tribute to the American flag. "Flags Across San Diego County" is a photographic exhibit that displays 150...

Upper Deck hopes to trump Pokemon craze with Yu-Gi-Oh! (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... A Carlsbad-based company is helping to bring a popular Japanese card craze to America. The Upper Deck Co., which markets sports trading cards and other sports memorabilia, acquired exclusive rights to market and distribute the trading card...

Entrepreneur opens 18-and-up Nightclub in Kearny Mesa. (Newsmakers).(Pure Night Club opens)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... To hear him tell it, 24-year-old Teddy Torbati is getting ready to take San Diego nightlife by storm. However, Torbati's not getting in line at a bar Downtown or in Pacific Beach. Instead, he's opened his own 18-and-up club, and has plans...

Arts groups packing for American Express marketing seminar. (Newsmakers).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Four local performing arts organizations will participate in the American Express National Arts Marketing Project in Chicago beginning later this month. Jean Isaac's San Diego Dance Theatre, Mainly Mozart, the Poway Center for the...

Construction and design. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Ocean Systems Engineering Corp. has named Doug Rhoades as vice president, chief technology officer, Ty Schieber as vice president, East Coast division, and promoted Mark Tierney to vice president, West Coast division. Michael B. Stockdale has...

Following the letters of the law.(Tamara Hemmerly organized questionable letter-writing campaign against unionizing efforts by the California Nurses Association)(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Letters to the editor are a vital element of any newspaper. Not only do they add depth and perspective to a particular issue, they also let the newspaper's staff know what hot-button issues are attracting readers. Just who is sending the...

Volunteers: An open letter to the prez. (Editor's Notebook).
March 4, 2002... Dear Mr. President: I applaud your recent call for more volunteerism among Americans, which you made in your State of the Union Address. However, I do not believe you need to establish a new agency -- you call it the USA Freedom Corps --...

Consolidating California's energy bureaucracy. (Opinion).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... California's energy bureaucracy is in dire need of an overhaul. Long before last year's energy crisis, California's energy departments were incapable of dealing with the demands of the new energy marketplace. One reason is that there are...

High-Tech and manufacturing. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Castle Access has named Mark Barlow as COO, Mark Hopperton as chief technology officer, and Joseph Alfrey as CFO. Interface Displays & Controls, Inc. has promoted Jenifer Lang to president, CEO and appointed Frank Mottola as business...

Government and nonprofit. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... SDSU's College of Extended Studies has named Joe Shapiro as associate dean. The following are City of San Diego appointments: Reynaldo Arellano as deputy city manager for technological services/chief information officer; Thomas Blair as energy...

Health care and biotech. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Robin L. Allgren has joined Innercool Therapies, Inc. as vice president, clinical research and medical affairs. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has appointed Roger Tung as vice president, drug discovery, Paul Negulescu as vice president, discovery...

Hotels, resorts and restaurants. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Carlton Greenawalt has been named executive chef at 150 Grand Cafe.

Law. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Foley & Lardner has promoted Stacy L. Taylor to partner. Michael J. Perez has joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP as partner. Barney & Barney has named Arlene Lieberman and William Buchanan as principals.

Media and marketing. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... The San Diego North Convention & Visitors Bureau has added Barbara Bovee as director of marketing.

Miscellaneous. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Southern California Soil and Testing, Inc. has hired Mukesh Mehta as a staff geologist and Katie McLaughlin as marketing coordinator.

Real estate. (People).(Brief Article)
March 4, 2002... Bobbie Park has joined Grubb & Ellis as marketing coordinator.

Agency director calls bank hidden asset for business.(Dan Renberg of Export-Import Bank of the United States)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... The Export-Import Bank of the United States has helped local companies export their products, and it may play a role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, according to one of its board members. Ex-Im Bank Director Dan Renberg stopped in San...

Prop. F suit called inevitable.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... Inevitable. That's what both sides are saying about the prospect of litigation to decide the legitimacy of the recently approved Proposition F. Proposition F did what the San Diego City Council created it to do in the March 5...

Analysts predict sweet dreams lie ahead for Neurocrine. (Enterprise: Biotech).(insomnia drug candidate)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... If analysts' projections are correct, Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. isn't just dreaming of a blockbuster drug. Gary A. Lyons, president, CEO and director of the La Jolla-based biotechnology firm, isn't alone in his belief that Neurocrine's...

HP merger like none seen before: No impact seen for local printer facility.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... By all accounts, the crown jewel of Hewlett-Packard is its computer printing and imaging business, so the proposed merger with Compaq shouldn't result in job cuts at HP's Rancho Bernardo plant if shareholders approve the deal March 19. And...

Only two local Kmarts affected by bankruptcy.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... Two Kmart stores in San Diego County will close this year as the giant chain retailer goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The two stores, along Mission Gorge Road in Santee and Jamacha Road in Rancho San Diego, were on the list of closures...

Downtown district prepares for cool new project.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... Construction: Cooling Plant Under Way in Ballpark District The master developer for the ballpark district in Downtown San Diego is building a single cooling plant to provide air conditioning for all of its facilities in the 26-block...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
March 18, 2002... Due to a proofreader's error, an article in the March 11 issue of the San Diego Business Journal's incorrectly quoted Regents Bank CEO Dan Yates as saying the area's four largest locally-based banks, which have parent companies outside the...

Ex-Scripps Bank officials eye another local venture; Banking: Scripps premier joins increasingly crowded field of community banks.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... Last week yet another group of investors emerged to launch a new community bank -- this one in the La Jolla area. The group includes four directors from the well-regarded Scripps Bank, which was acquired by U.S. Bancorp, and several other...

State kicks in $1 million to aid regional growth plan.(California aids San Diego Association of Governments)(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... Apparently realizing the urgency of San Diego County's transportation and housing needs, the state will fund the majority of the regional plan being put together over the next 18 months by the San Diego Association of Governments. Gov....

Port begins expansion of National City Marine Terminal.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... NATIONAL CITY -- The San Diego Unified Port District has embarked on a $20.3 million project expanding the 24th Street wharf. Improvements to the National City Marine Terminal, which include 1,200 feet of wharf extensions and dredging,...

American Express puts small biz help online. (Small Business & Retail).(Brief Article)
March 18, 2002... American Express has a few tips to help small firms use the Internet to improve their business. The company, which recently created the online OPEN: The Small Business Network, now has 10 tips for small firms online. 1. The IRS's Web...