Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Friday, November 19, 1999
Oahu businessmen buy training firm
Honolulu businessmen Gregg Yamanaka and Lloyd Kawakami have purchased Computer Training Co. and placed it under a new parent partnership called Terabiz. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Company founder Pat Henrickson will oversee Terabiz' activities on the mainland. Yamanaka, former president of meetings and conventions management firm MC&A Inc., and Kawakami, president of Iolani Sportswear, said they will diversify the computer skills training company to add business "re-engineering," showing companies how to computerize and use the Internet.
Coffee, juice outlets to open downtown
Coffee Partners Hawaii and JJC Hawaii LLC, which brought Starbucks and Jamba Juice outlets to a number of island shopping malls, will open a 699-square-foot Starbucks coffee shop and a 1,027-square-foot Jamba Juice juice bar in February in the Bishop and Merchant corner of the Bank of Hawaii building.
Mediator appointed in Microsoft case
WASHINGTON -- The judge in the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial appointed a mediator today to oversee "voluntary" settlement talks between the government and the software giant. The surprise move dramatically increases chances for an out-of-court agreement. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson appointed Richard Posner, the widely respected chief judge for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.