The merger between Hewlett Packard Company and Compaq Computer Corporation is history, waiting only on certification of stockholder election results, but the merger’s impact on local branches of both companies remains unknown. Locally, no one at either company would provide information to the Business Journal, but did provide numbers to corporate offices. At press time, [...]
Continue reading …Your semiconductor plant just suffered a brief power outage and the menu-driven spectrum analyzer isn’t working – or the calibration on your one-inch micrometer is off just enough to make it impossible to use. Equipment –whether digital, analog or mechanical – does break down and complicates life. Mountain Metrology and Repair (MMR), serves quality assurance [...]
Continue reading …On March 6, EDS Corporation, with nearly 1000 employees in the Pikes Peak region and more than 21,500 nationwide, was awarded the prestigious Points of Light Foundation Award of Excellence. The award honors companies that have made a serious commitment to the community and have made employee volunteer efforts a central part of their operations, [...]
Continue reading …His client list reads like the “Who’s Who” of Colorado Springs business, past and present: IBM, Rolm, MCI, Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, Digital Equipment Corporation, TRW and even historic semiconductor pioneer, Cray Computers. And then there are the advertising agencies, the Broker Restaurants in Denver (a 30-year client), the Broadmoor Hotel, area real estate companies, builders [...]
Continue reading …“Here, Aibo, here Aibo. Good dog! Where’s your ball?” Put in the name of your choice, and it’s a greeting pet owners world-wide probably issue on a regular basis. But Aibo is different. You don’t have to walk him, he needs no shots, and subsists on a diet of, well, direct current. Aibo is the [...]
Continue reading …Several hundred business and community leaders listened intently last week as four local experts on the Springs economy shared economic insights at the annual Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) Economic Forecast Breakfast Tuesday, Feb. 29. Mike Anderson, Director, City Office of Budget and Financial Analysis; Doug Carter, of Doug Carter, LLC, and authority on [...]
Continue reading …A financier’s point of view In a recent article for Commercial Investment Real Estate (CIRE), Benjamin Nummy, vice president with Morgan Stanley takes a look at real estate financing for today’s surviving technology ventures and dot.coms. He warns that the amount of vacant office square footage will increase dramatically in the next two years and [...]
Continue reading …Plasmon Laser Magnetic Storage is moving its Minneapolis manufacturing operations to its Colorado Springs facility. Some employees from the Eden Prairie, Minn., plant are moving to Colorado Springs, but the local manufacturing plant has been actively recruiting high-tech workers and operations staff to boost production here. With headquarters in Melbourn, England, Plasmon employs 500 people [...]
Continue reading …Just before Christmas, 2001, Colorado Springs’ entrepreneur Michael Enos, CEO and president of H.I.S. Financial Services Corp., received the ultimate gift: his four-year old payment processing technology company and the firm’s strategic partner, The Logix Companies, LLC (based in Longmont) were purchased by one of the country’s largest commerce transaction and processing companies. Concord EFS [...]
Continue reading …New electronic check recovery service offered to banks in CO Springs
September 28, 2001 Comments OffMerchants and entrepreneurs now have another option to check guarantee services that doesn’t cost the vendor a dime. Called NSF eCollect, it is a new electronic check recovery service with an 80 percent success rate. “Colorado Springs is a transient city,” said Daniel Rogers, Director of Strategic Alliances for Merchant Services Plus Inc. “It has [...]
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