A Fort Collins-based company has launched an online pawnshop that has drawn interest from a few dozen pawnbrokers nationwide.

Deal4it.com, developed by subprime lender Mister Money Holdings, combines live auction bidding with real-time dealing.

Customers can submit bids for products or avoid an auction and buy them at the full asking price immediately. They can also request products if they don’t see them on the website. But there are already thousands of items for sale, including cameras, cell phones, MORE

NONPROFIT NOTES

Bohemian Foundation is opening registration for its Bridges out of Poverty Northern Colorado 2012 trainings. The first workshops will be offered May 17 and 18 and will feature Scott Miller and Jodi Pfarr, two nationally renowned speakers on poverty alleviation. The workshops are free but registration is required.



Registration for the Larimer Humane Society’s 22nd annual Fire Hydrant 5, 5k Walk/Run and Pet Expo is now open. The Fire Hydrant 5 is the community’s largest MORE

Million's pipeline: Stick a fork in it

Developer Aaron Million is trying to sell state and federal officials and Front Range water utilities on his grandiose scheme to pump water from Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Utah-Wyoming border 550 miles from the Front Range.

If they buy this pipedream, I've got some riverfront land in the Mojave Desert to sell them.

This project is a huge distraction for MORE

A Page 1 story on Loveland’s tourism aspirations in the April 6-19 Business Report incorrectly reported that the Loveland chamber runs the city’s Visitors’ Center. The center had been operated by the chamber but, as of Jan. 1, is overseen by the city.

A story on Page 11 in the April 6-19 Business Report erroneously reported Kansas City, Mo.-based Bank Midwest purchased Fort Morgan State Bank in 2011. The story should have said Bank Midwest purchased Bank of Choice.

The Business Report will MORE

Let me start by drawing on what is clearly a hyper-dramatic illustration:

A few days back, an oil well blew out near Douglas, Wyo., causing 50 residents of the rolling prairie to evacuate their homes amid concern that a spewing cloud of natural gas could explode.

Witnesses told a TV station they could hear the roaring gas from six miles away.

Which, I think we can all agree, is a lot farther than 350 feet, the current setback required under Colorado law between oil operations and civilization. MORE

BOARDS

Jeff Nuttall became the newest member of Embrace Northern Colorado’s Board of Directors. The board is a group of renowned civic leaders dedicated to creating a great future for Northern Colorado through preserving and enhancing the quality of life by bringing leaders together to address the region’s challenges and opportunities. Nuttall is the publisher of the Northern Colorado Business Report.



Russ Johnson was confirmed as a member to the Colorado State University System Board MORE

Despite all of the good they do, lawyers often get very little respect, which helps explain Jennifer Peters’ comments:

“Lawyers are good people, too,” says Peters, a partner with Otis, Coan & Peters LLC, one of this year’s Better Business Bureau Torch award recipients.

Considering the culture at her firm, it’s easy to see her point, starting with how the firm decides who it will represent.

It is the company’s belief that its clients represent the firm as much MORE

How many mad cows does it take to move markets?

In one day, April 24, an announcement about one confirmed case of mad cow disease in California had various markets soaring and falling in unison. The disease in the dairy cow was the first new case since 2006 and only the fourth reported case in the United States.

Pilgrim’s Pride shares shot up 50 cents to $7.15, a 7.5 percent spike that ranked it among the day’s 10 biggest percentage gainers on the New York Stock Exchange. Meanwhile, live cattle MORE