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TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANUFACTURERS Ranked by 1999 fiscal year gross revenue Company name Telephone Rank Address Fax (last year) Web address Toll-free number 1 Qualcomm Inc. (858) 587-1121 (1) 5775 Morehouse Drive, [...]

New User-Friendly Environments Promote Teaming Concept The mantra for business etiquette usually is to please the customers. But these days, businesses are looking not only to put their customers at [...]

The local chapter of the Junior League will celebrate the organization's centennial with a well-known entrepreneur as guest speaker and a local philanthropist as the special honoree. The Junior League [...]

Initially Mike Reynolds, president of local homebuilder Reynolds Communities, was apprehensive about selling his new-home community over the Internet. But his son, 25-year-old Justin, was adamant they try. 'He said: [...]

Plaintiffs Must Prove Damage or Injury in Negligence Cases The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold a San Diego court ruling has some developers believing more affordable housing is on [...]

Startup Plans to Expand Throughout State This Year Brian Yui doesn't believe his startup is vulnerable to current market conditions. Nor does he believe his dot-corn is a potential victim [...]

Michael Senoff isn't in business to give money away, but he knows a good idea when he sees it. That's why Senoff, president of Monico Products, a Clairemont-based pen manufacturer, [...]

Shops Featured Before Video Finn's Demise in February A local video production company that made infomercials featuring dozens of San Diego businesses ceased operations recently without telling many of their [...]

Finance Columns Also Appear in Local Newspapers Local broadcaster George Chamberlin knew he wanted to be in radio even before he graduated from high school. And aside from a few [...]

Internet Phone Service Becomes Viable as Infrastructure Costs Decline According to local executives and independent industry analysts, the voice-over Internet protocol is the most misunderstood niche in the telecom industry. [...]

Firms Often Take Costly Reactive Approach to Attacks Boy, was my face red. As careful as I usually am, I didn't think before trying to open what I thought was [...]

Tech Statistics Compiled for Marketing Purposes Latin America's need for technology has existed for decades, according to Philip Okun of the Institute of the Americas. So when he heard about [...]

Preventing, Documenting Injuries Key to Minimizing Fees A common myth about the game of soccer is that it's a non-contact sport. Fast? Yes. Intense? At times it can be. Exciting? [...]

TEMPORARY STAFFING SERVICES Ranked by verified local gross revenue for fiscal 1999 Agency Telephone Rank Address Fax (last year) Web address Toll-free number 1 Adecco Employment Services, Inc. (760) 405-1108 [...]

Coleman College launched anew master's degree program this semester intended for information technology employees. The curriculum for the master of science in information technology degree focuses on advanced programming techniques, [...]

Judge Leads the Way for Instructional Tape After seven years of explaining America's criminal court system with a video made in the early 1980s, federal magistrate Judge Leo Papas decided [...]

Tech Leaders + Educators Equals Math, Science Emphasis It was clearly a study in contrast. In one of the most neglected communities in San Diego, the chief executives from two [...]

The most infrequent beer brewed at Stone Brewing Co. in San Marcos is once again available, just like it is for the first quarter of every year. Only this year, [...]

Nancy Scull had every intention of joining a litigation practice when she graduated law school in 1982 from the University of Southern California. But shortly after graduation she decided that [...]

Traditional industrial firms will win the war with trendy start-ups over the region's industrial buildings, said local commercial realtors, but they won't win the battles in the high-tech clusters. Currently, [...]

Even in today's weakening dot-com environment, Frank Ohrmund of San Diego wanted to try something new. His idea was to create a real estate transactions site for brokers and buyers [...]

If you regularly read San Diego's largest daily newspaper and haven't heard about The Auld Course, a South Bay public golf course, you're not paying attention. Nine stories on the [...]

Databases List Firms Eligible to Work on City, Schools Projects San Diego's minority firms have lost too many municipal contracts since 1997 when California's courts legalized the voters' decision to [...]

Best Defense Is Background Checks, Internal Controls When Kathy Sciarrino learned her CFQ might have been embezzling from her company, there was not a single word in the English language [...]

In the early 1990s, Sharp Cabrillo Hospital offered its specialized gastric bypass surgery to Hillcrest Surgical Medical Group, Inc. Gastric bypass surgery is a procedure that separates and seals the [...]

An ironic measure of goodwill created this past August is still going strong at a community center in Balboa Park. Inside the Blind Community Center of San Diego on Upas [...]

Panel Participants Include Senior Commanders The local chapter of a civilian Navy group is sponsoring a conference this month that the promoter hopes will open a dialogue between the defense [...]

Contractor Works on Combat Systems at Its Own Pace Five months after the opening of a new Raytheon Co. building in Kearny Mesa, executives at the site said they're close [...]

Even the owner of the showroom selling Ralph Lauren carpet had his misgivings about the collection. But when the first order was placed four days before the collection's display was [...]

Labor: Economists Expect Moderate 1 Percent Job Growth in Local Region An overwhelming majority of local businesses are projecting such financial success in 2001 that more, higher-priced employees will be [...]

Defense: Greater Demands for Satellite Communications Systems Keeps Industry Busy When surveyed, members of San Diego's defense and aerospace industry were non-committal on the economic outlook for their industry in [...]

In a move reminiscent of the firm's first business model, a San Diego document management firm is launching an e-learning service for current and future clients. The move to Internet-based [...]

It's always interesting to hear how local firms promote goodwill among their employees. But perhaps the quirkiest morale-booster in San Diego this year belongs to the Gaf Cats of Gafcon, [...]

In past years, employee-training programs were the poster children of cruel irony: They were the last departments to receive funding in the good times and the first to the chopping [...]

Never mind that San Diego has just two independently owned computer game design firms: Angel Studios and Presto Studios, Inc. When Michel Kripalani, CEO of Presto Studios, received his invitation [...]

Designing a building along the Pacific coast is unlike anywhere else in the continental United States, local professionals say. Fault lines, in particular, have taken structural design in the West [...]

A national hotel chain with three hotels in the San Diego area has decided to franchise all future hotel projects. The move by the Dallas-based La Quinta Inns, Inc. includes [...]

The final verdict in a civil case against actor Clint Eastwood this year was supposed to reaffirm the validity of a wide-ranging federal law for the disabled. Instead, it has [...]

Baseball fans have fantasy camps. Golfers play in pro-am tournaments. Football fans buy season tickets. Surfers have ... well they had nothing until now. Bill Wade, a Fallbrook entrepreneur, has [...]

Bigger is better in the law profession these days. Firms across the board are merging faster and more often than in previous years. The prize for the big firms is [...]

Profitable dot-coms are getting the cold shoulder in the acquisition and merger markets because of their bankrupt brethren, said local business brokers. They say interest in sound Internet-based firms on [...]