San Francisco Business Times articles from August 2001

San Francisco Business Times archives from August 2001

$160M project thaws building freeze.(Continental Development)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Developer is hot for San Francisco hotel-condo combo A Southern California developer is pushing into San Francisco with plans to build a 39-story, $160 million hotel and condominium complex on what is now a parking lot at Fifth and Howard...

AT&T: Break up Pacific Bell.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Foes call for split of wholesale and retail; but is it the answer? Competitors of Pacific Bell are calling on the California Public Utilities Commission to break the local phone giant into separate wholesale and retail companies as the...

Gap fashions new ad blitz to bag sales.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... After months of tardy financial results, Gap Inc. is looking to a new ad campaign to deliver better attendance from back-to-school shoppers. The television campaign, created by Boston ad agency Modernista, signifies a shift not only in...

Telecom firm back in acquisition Zhone.(Zhone Technologies Inc. purchases equipment from Nortel Networks Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Zhone Technologies has acquired network access technology from Nortel Networks in a deal that gives the Oakland telecommunications equipment maker a significant inroad with major carriers like Bell Canada, Verizon Communications and Qwest...

AT&T seeks a new set of lab results.(AT and T Bell Laboratories)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... New boss wants the star scientific facility to make a big discovery: Revenue Hossein Eslamboichi, a veteran AT&T scientist and engineer responsible for the telecommunication giant's Internet protocol and packet networks, will succeed...

Airport lands on retailer.(San Francisco International Airport Commission case against Calstar Retail Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Seeking more than $1.1 million in unpaid rent, the San Francisco Airport Commission filed a lawsuit to evict a concession operator, the latest friction between SFO and merchants at the new and underused international terminal. Calstar...

PC-maker won't compact in the Bay Area.(Compaq holds off on layoffs in San Francisco area offices)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Compaq is slicing staff this year, but its 2,500 employees sprinkled throughout the Bay Area will likely remain unscathed. The Houston-based computer manufacturer just scored a $100 million, three-year deal to upgrade Sabre Holdings...

DNA entrepreneur claims he's not cloning around.(DNA Copyright Institute offers to copyright DNA)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Some celebrities have to settle for a security guard. A new San Francisco company is hoping that security-minded celebrities of tomorrow will get something a little more leading-edge than a couple of beefy goons and the odd restraining order....

GAMES LAWYERS PLAY.(Herrington and Sutcliffe L.L.P. launch game for recruiting)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Add a new twist to the prerequisites for a top-drawer lawyer: supple wrist. As its recruiters prepared to flock to law school campuses this fall, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP launched a recruiting video game at its web site. The...

Rise & Fall.(multiple industry briefs)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... A barometer of the region's movers, shakers and fakers Antawn Jamison The Warriors may be yet to escape from their confinement in professional basketball's cellar, but they've already reached No. 1 in another category. They've handed...

Struggling startups join forces to face downturn.(mergers and acquisitions in Silicon Valley)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 31, 2001... Call it the big-bang theory of mergers and acquisitions. Just as matter, stardust and heat came together in just the right combination to create the universe -- so too are the excesses of the past few years, the valuations of private...

Business Times snags four more awards.(San Francisco Business Times receives awards fromt he California Newspaper Publishers Association)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... The San Francisco Business Times recently grabbed four awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, including the organization's' highest honor for a weekly newspaper of its size. Three of the awards fell in the weekly...

Emergency management firm ready to operate.(EMSource created after Emergency Physicians Medical Group sells Meriten)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Catholic Healthcare West has shed its emergency medical group contracting arm, selling the operation back to its doctors. Newly minted EMSource, now based near Sacramento, provides administrative and billing services to emergency...

Corrections & Amplifications.
August 31, 2001... The story titled "Airport retailers thrown into tailspin" (Aug. 24-30 issue) said airport vendor Del Duca Enterprises has sued San Francisco International Airport In fact, SFO is suing Calstar Retail Inc., of which Del Duca is a predecessor...

Executive Profile: GEORGE SCANGOS.(President and CEO of Exelixis)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... RESUME Name: George Scangos. Title: President and CEO. Company: Exelixis, a South San Francisco-based biotech company focused on research and development of pharmaceuticals. The company lost $22.9 million in 2000 and $15.2...

Port edges closer to filling commercial space.(Port of Oakland)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... The Port of Oakland will decide Sept. 4 whether to sell a 2.6-acre parcel to a construction company seeking to build a regional headquarters, a move that would leave the port just two acres from closing the books on its 1,000-acre portfolio....

Developer reels in 200 Brannan site after no investors bite.(Lennar Corp.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... After six months of marketing its South of Market housing site, Lennar Corp. has pulled 200 Brannan St. off the market and may develop the land itself. Grubb & Ellis managing director Dan Cressman confirmed he is no longer selling 200...

Developers go shopping for hot bargains in S.F.(San Francisco area real estate)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... The decline in rents, and thus values, means more developers are bargain hunting for properties, among them Greg Flynn of Flynn Land Co. and Michael Covarrubias of TMG Partners. "The downturn frees up opportunities," Flynn said. "If the...

COX CADILLAC REVS FORWARD.(development project in Oakland)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... The historic Cox Cadillac project in Oakland is poised to accelerate after months of idling in the preliminary environmental review process. The city's planning commission is scheduled to hear the draft environmental impact report and...

COLLIERS PREDICTS RETURN OF BOOM.(Colliers International USA, real estate forecast)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Colliers International has released its second-quarter report on San Francisco and the firm predicts that the downturn will be short-lived. For the rest of the year, the brokerage firm is predicting continued softening rents and an...

Shorenstein Co.(closes office acquisition fund)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... * Shorenstein Co. announced that it has closed its sixth fund with equity of $525 million. Shorenstein invested $75 million in the fund, which will be used for office acquisitions.

Insignia/ESG.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... * Insignia/ESG has been hired to sell Serramonte Plaza in Daly City. The complex, which is 96 percent leased, consists of 93,118 square feet of office space in five buildings and 79,852 square feet of retail space in eight buildings. The...

CB Richard Ellis Inc.(says San Francisco is eighth most expensive city in the world)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... San Francisco moved from the ninth most expensive city in the world in January to the eighth most expensive in July, despite a drop in occupancy costs from $73.75 to $71.20 per square foot. * Despite San Francisco's declining rents, the...

BofA chief sees recovery next spring.(Bank of America chairman Ken Lewis)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... California remains a strong growth market for Bank of America despite the tech downturn and the economic "malaise" sweeping across the country, Ken Lewis, chairman and CEO, said in his first public appearance in San Francisco since taking the...

Golden Gate Capital snaps up electronics firm Nu Visions Manufacturing.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... San Francisco's Golden Gate Capital has acquired Nu Visions Manufacturing, an electronics manufacturing company, from components distributor Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. for $31.5 million. The $700 million private equity firm was...

Inside Traders.(recent stock sales by San Francisco corporation executives)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Inside Traders A look at selling of shares by Bay Area Jay Nussbaum Officer Oracle Corp. Shares sold: 166,000 Were shares sold options? Yes Options exercised price: $5.34...

Wells is rumored suitor for broker Gruntal & Co.(Wells Fargo and Co.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Wells Fargo is among those said to be interested in acquiring Gruntal & Co., a New York-based regional brokerage. Given the San Francisco bank's appetite for brokerage firms, ifs not surprising that Gruntal may be on the company's...

MILITARY.COM ARMED WITH NEW CASH.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Given the daily headlines, it's easy to draw the wrong conclusion that all the venture capitalists have closed their wallets and run for cover. But San Francisco companies are among those still receiving funding although at nowhere near...

E&Y, BANKOXYGEN CREATE ALLIANCE.(Ernst and Young Inc. and FinancialOxygen team up to offer BankOxygen service)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Walnut Creek's FinancialOxygen, an online capital markets trading portal, has teamed up with Ernst & Young to provide online advisory services to independent financial institutions using the company's BankOxygen service. The Ernst &...

WEISEL PARTNERS TRIMS 80 JOBS.(Thomas Weisel Partners)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Thomas Weisel Partners, one of the last holdouts among Bay Area investment banks when it comes to shedding staff, will cut almost 80 positions. Most of the cuts are expected to occur in investment banking, which has been especially hard...

Providian accounting change prompts analyst rebuke.(Providian Financial)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... You can't please everyone all the time, but Providian Financial Corp. is finding it difficult keep analysts happy -- even those who until recently had been in its corner. The defining event? The San Francisco-based credit card issuer's...

E-TRADE, SOUNDVIEW AGREE TO SEE OTHERS.(E-Trade Group Inc. and SoundView Technology Group Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Menlo Park-based E-Trade Group Inc. and its former investment banking arm, now SoundView Technology Group Inc., agreed to snap a four-year exclusivity agreement. The new 27-month "non-exclusive relationship" forces E-Trade to return to...

VISA ONLINE SECURITY WINS CONVERTS.(Visa U.S.A.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Visa U.S.A. has added more banks and retailers -- including OfficeMax, Ashford and Fifth Third Bank -- to its stable of firms adopting its new online security standards. Visa will replace a set of online security standards that many U.S....

Lawsuits, delays can't wither Bloomie's project.(Bloomingdale's Inc)(Forest City Development)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Brian Jones, the British-born president of Forest City Development California Inc., assured a group at a packed City Club luncheon a week ago that the Bloomingdale's developer is not going to back down, despite another lawsuit holding up the...

ANALYSTS SEE TOUGH TIMES FOR GAP.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Droves of analysts are racing to downgrade Gap Inc. after its latest earnings report, and a few of them don't see a quick turnaround with back-to-school sales either. Mike Porter, a retail analyst with Morningstar.com, feels that...

RETAIL CONGLOMERATE GETS SOLE.(San Francisco Music Box Co.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... The San Francisco Music Box Co., is being sold by its parent company retailing giant Venator Group. Venator, which owns the Music Box stores and some Burger King franchises, is adopting the name of its biggest money-making division, Foot...

RIP TO GMO.(GMO/Hill Holliday drops GMO as part of moniker)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Another piece at San Francisco's advertising tradition slipped beneath the waves last week. GMO/Hill, Holliday, the shop started by industry veteran Fred Goldberg as Goldberg Moser O'Neill until it was acquired by Interpublic Group of...

PICKETT PICKS IT.(Picket Advertising launches new campaign for Longs Drug Stores)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Pickett Advertising is launching a new campaign for client Longs Drugs aimed at getting more consumers to its web site. The humorous television spots show a mom, played by a contortionist, who slips into an improbable position to...

Kaiser receives poor diagnosis from patients.(Kaiser Permanente hospitals)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Maybe Kaiser isn't for everyone, or at least, not for some of the 21,000 people polled in a recent hospital evaluation. The study, undertaken by the California Health Care Foundation and the California Institute for Health Systems...

CHW RECEIVES CASH INFUSION.(Catholic Healthcare West)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Even if a business is a hospital, its lifeblood is still cash. With that in mind, the Bank of America Foundation has given a grant of $90,000 to San Francisco-based hospital chain Catholic Healthcare West. The funds will be used to...

Giants give fans the power to make Pac Bell changes.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... San Francisco Giants fans -- you make the call. Preliminary results from J.D. Power and Associates' surveys of Giants fans will be presented to Giants management late next month, and Tom McDonald, the team's senior vice president of...

PROMOTIONS AND RETIREMENTS.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... The Oakland A's plan on a series of promotions for the final Network Associates Coliseum appearance by Baltimore Orioles' ironman Cal Ripken Jr. The A's will give away a different Ripken baseball card for each of the Sept. 2-4 games,...

Keeping it private.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Last year's IPO becomes this year's pariah as private companies bask in the background The IPO that was last year's brass ring is this year's lead weight. From Pets.com and Quokka to Organic and Snowball.com, dozens of young companies...

Liberate CEO sees employees as less greedy in downturn.(Competing against Microsoft)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 31, 2001... Competing against Microsoft is a sort of habitual condition if you are in the software business as Mitchell Kertzman is. Now, as CEO of liberate Technologies in San Carlos, an interactive television firm, Kertzman finds himself once again...

Watch gave me a lickin' but I kept on tickin'.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... A wave of sadness swept over me Sunday in the produce section of Andronico's. My watch started to beep and then across the bottom of its small screen, like the ticker in Times Square, scrolled the words, "Singer Aaliyah dies with eight others...

High expectations.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... More Bay Area law firms pin their hopes on intellectual property cases When Deborah Wright started at Golden Gate Law School, Yahoo had just gone public, venture capitalists were still doling out millions to sell pet food online and...

Liquidation specialists mop up after bankruptcies.(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 31, 2001... With the Bay Area awash in pink slips and San Francisco bankruptcies piling up at the rate of about one every other day, the local business climate looks stormy indeed. But for Susan Uecker, prospects have never been sunnier. As...

Area consultants slash and burn prices to increase market share.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Simple supply and demand is forcing tech consulting firms into a price war, with some firms undercutting competitors by 50 percent or even agreeing to work for free. But racked by the tech industry's boom and then bust, consultants...

Area accountants write off their stodgy image.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Call them analysts, call them forecasters, call them "wealth protectors and generators," but please don't call them accountants. A new generation of ambitious, socially conscious and technically savvy accountants have moved beyond...

Largest Bay Area Accounting Firms.(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... This week's List of Largest Accounting Firms provides a welcome reprieve from current reports of companies hemorrhaging staff. While many companies are trimming work forces, that sort of number-crunching has yet to hit the region's top...

People.(Interview)
August 31, 2001... BANKING/FINANCE Craig Lamson was named director of marketing for Forward Management. Lamson joins the San Francisco-based investment firm from Morgan Stanley Online. He also previously served as vice president at Salomon Brothers Asset...

New health and safety chief vows to up compliance help.(safety programs will help small businesses with their bottom line)(Brief Article)(Interview)
August 31, 2001... New Occupational Safety and Health Administrator John Henshaw wants to sell small businesses on the idea that safety programs will help their bottom line. "My goal is to sell the value of safety and health," he says. "It's good...

Controlling interest.(Brief Article)(Interview)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Berkeley firm expands through machine designs for manufacturing processes Looking for adventure after graduating from Stanford University, Paul Sagues, now president of Berkeley Process Control Inc., spent two years with some friends on...

Entrepreneur Profile: GEOFFREY MOORE.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... RESUME Name: Geoffrey Moore. Company: The Chasm Group, San Mateo; market development strategy consulting practices. Title: Chairman. Also venture partner at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, Menlo Park. 2000 revenue: $5 million. ...

City's feud against landlords hurts everyone.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... San Francisco struck out in court again this month, taking its latest misguided swing at the city's chronic housing shortage. The city's latest legal whiff on housing is another in a list of wild flailings so long, inglorious and...

Happy Belabor Day -- you've earned it.(Labor Day as an outdated holiday)(Brief Article)(Column)
August 31, 2001... What America needs is another national holiday -- and one less. First, my nomination for the chopping block: Labor Day. Labor Day was established to honor the working people of the United States and Canada. Its origin dates to 1882,...

Hungry economy can't live on Fed's rate cuts alone.(Brief Article)(Column)
August 31, 2001... In case you missed it, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates again. Don't you feel better already about the economy? Fed rate reductions appear to represent the totality of the Bush administration's economic revitalization program....

America's disdain for older workers out of tune with reality.(Brief Article)(Column)
August 31, 2001... Though our society abounds with well-worn adages about the value of age and experience, we often mouth them emptily in our relentless worship of youth. Tech workers are at their prime in their 20s. By 30, you're over the hill. By 40,...

EXCITE LENDERS DEMAND $50M.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Two holders of ExciteAtHome's convertible notes said that the company breached representations made when the notes were issued and demanded payment of $50 million of the notes on or before Aug. 31. Redwood City-based Excite -- which is led by...

AT&T EXEC TO HEAD PALM DIVISION.(David Nagel to head Palm Inc.'s new software subsidiary)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Santa Clara-based Plam Inc. named AT&T executive David Nagel as president and CEO of the company's software subsidiary, which is slated to launch before the end of the year. Nagel was chief technology officer at AT&T and president of AT&T...

CISCO RESTRUCTURES.(Cisco Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... San Jose-based networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is undergoing a major restructuring that will include centralizing its engineering and marketing organizations and shifting a number of management roles. The engineering organization, which...

COOLEY GODWARD LAYS OFF 95.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Cooley Godward LLP, the Bay Area's third-largest law firm, will layoff 85 attorneys and 50 staff employees by the end of the month. The layoffs will be spread across the firm's offices, including its Palo Alto headquarters and offices in San...

CLASSROOM CONNECT(S) TO HARTCOURT.(Harcourt Education Inc. to acquire Classroom Connect Inc.)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Brisbane-based online learning firm Classroom Connect Inc. agreed to be acquired by Harcourt Education Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based educational publishing firm. Classroom Connect said the transaction will enable it to strengthen its position...

STANDARD MEDIA FILES CHAPTER 11.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Standard Media Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a San Francisco federal court this week, one week after its flagship magazine, the Industry Standard, ceased publication and laid off most of its staff. AnnMarie McGowan, the...

STATE TAX RATES TO DROP.(Franchise Tax Board indexes personal tax rates by 5.3 percent)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... The state's Franchise Tax Board indexed personal tax rates by 5.3 percent for the 2001 tax year, meaning taxes will go down from last year. Indexing takes the inflation rate into account and adjusts tax brackets, filing requirement...

WARRIORS SIGN JAMISON FOR SIX YEARS.(Golden State Warriors, Antawn Jamison)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Golden State Warriors star forward Antawn Jamison signed a six-year contract extension with the Oakland franchise, which sources valued at the maximum $83.7 million. The Warriors, long-maligned for letting their best players slip away while...

AREA HOME SALES DOWN 11.6 PERCENT.(San Francisco Bay area)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Bay Area existing home sales in July slipped 11.6 percent over the prior year, even as the median price edged up 4.6 percent to $481,280 in the same period, according to a report released by the California Association of Realtors and Real...

MATTSON PLANS ADDITIONAL LAYOFFS.(Mattson Technology)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Fremont-based Mattson Technology, which develops manufacturing equipment for the semiconductor industry, extended its previously announced cost-cuffing program to include a 25 percent workforce reduction, well above the previously planned 15...

REPORT: WE ARE IN A RECESSION.(Rosen Consulting Group)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... A report released this week by Rosen Consulting Group says that the national economy is already in a recession and recovery is unlikely until mid- to late 2002. The report, titled "We are in a Recession! It's about to be Official," says slow...

GILEAD SELLS PROLIGIO STAKE.(Gilead Sciences Inc. sells interest in Proligio LLC)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Foster City-based biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. said that New Jersey-based Degussa Corp. will acquire Gilead's 49 percent interest in Proligio LLC for approximately $14 million in cash. Proligio is a joint, venture between...

SANTA CLARA DROPS A'S DISCUSSION.(Oakland Athletics)(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Santa Clara's City Council voted 4-2 to drop further talks with the Oakland Athletics about moving the team to Santa Clara. The vote follows news reports that the A's had been entertaining an offer to sell the American League team. To date,...

PEOPLESOFT ACQUIRES COHERA ASSETS.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Pleasanton-based business software company PeopleSoft Inc. acquired the intellectual property and certain assets of Hayward-based Cohera Inc. PeopleSoft -- which is led by CEO Craig Conway -- plans to combine Cohera's catalog management and...

KANISA RAISES $30M.(Brief Article)
August 31, 2001... Cupertino-based Kanisa Inc., which develops online customer service software, raised more than $30 million in its series E financing round, which was lead by Meritech Capital Partners. Also participating were Ernst & Young, NIF Ventures,...

E-TRADE BUYS DEMPSEY, RESTRUCTURES.(E-Trade Group Inc. acquires Dempsey & Co. LLC)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 31, 2001... Menlo Park-based online brokerage E-Trade Group Inc. signed an agreement to acquire market-making firm Dempsey & Co. LLC for $173.5 million in cash and stock, just as it expands its restructuring efforts. E-Trade -- which is led by CEO...

Airport retailers thrown into tailspin.(San Francisco International Airport businesses face high rents and declining sales)(Statistical Data Included)
August 24, 2001... Travel crunch, high rents put stores and SFO on collision course A handful of stricken San Francisco International Airport businesses are withholding rent payments in the face of a severe travel slump and high airport rents. Air...

Giants get back in bowl game.(New bid for college football bowl game in San Francisco)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... Fumble spurs new game plan A new bid for a college football bowl game in San Francisco is under way, and organizers say a game at Pacific Bell Park could kick off in 16 months. The move returns the San Francisco Giants, backers of the...

High-tech FuturePlex halts construction.(FuturePlex office complex in San Francisco)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... The massive FuturePlex office complex, the futuristic, high-tech structure launched last year in San Francisco, has lost its race against time. "We've stopped construction at this point just because of the market," said project manager...

Retailers howl over bike storage law.(San Francisco's new bike storage law)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... A new city ordinance that will force building owners to install bike storage in new and renovated buildings won approval from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, but is facing stiff opposition from downtown retailers and property owners....

Driving into the mainstream.(San Francisco's bumper-to-bumper roadways get help from car pooling service)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... San Francisco's car-sharing program targets corporations There are a million cars in the naked city -- or at least that's what it seems on any given day driving along San Francisco's bumper-to-bumper roadways. And that's just fine with...

Competing phone companies urge CPUC to slash Pac Bell's rates.(California's local phone market )(Government Activity)(International Pages)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... Worldcom Inc. and AT&T Corp. warn that Pacific Bell will re-monopolize California's local phone market if the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't slash the rates that the Baby Bell charges competitors for access to its network by...

Brown offers developers a green light.(Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown's dream of finding a fast track for developers is getting closer to the finish line. His effort received a boost when the state environmental quality committee unanimously agreed to his plan to bypass the...

Zegnatronic protester rockets toward profits.(Frank Chu)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... In these troubled economic times, even Frank Chu has had to change his business model. Chu is a frequently sighted denizen of downtown San Francisco who perpetually walks the sidewalks with a protest sign in hand. Now Chu has sold the...

MAJOR LEAGUE BUMMER.(the high-speed Internet service at Network Associates Coliseum)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... It's all fun and games until someone disconnects your DSL. Just ask those who wanted to use the high-speed Internet service at Network Associates Coliseum recently. After the Oakland Raiders' first preseason football game, sportswriters...

Rise & Fall.(ExciteAtHome)(E*TRADE Group)(San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)(Brief Article)
August 24, 2001... A barometer of the region's movers, shakers and fakers Patti Hart Four months after joining the beleaguered broadband provider, CEO Patti Hart can't be feeling particularly "AtHome." A 10-O filing revealed that ExciteAtHome is...