Venoco CEO offers to take firm private

Editorial: Don’t count California out just yet

There are signs that California’s sputtering job engine is starting to come to life.

Spirit of Small Business 2011 event photos

Visit www.facebook.com/pacbiztimes for more photos from this year’s event.

PBS Biotech acquires manufacturing firm

Grooving a niche in the market: Record Technology builds a business on vinyl

Record Technology Inc. in Camarillo is one of only a dozen vinyl record pressing plants left in the United States.

Melchiori, subs tangle over county project

Glowing success: Phone Halo gears up for mass distribution

Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo’s technology for keeping track of a smart phone is hitting the streets through mass distribution.

Large spaces finally seeing action again in Ventura County market

Ventura County’s industrial space market is in flux.

An ode to Business Times history on four wheels

I’ve grown fond of saying that I started the Business Times with a checkbook, a business plan and a leased Saab.

Blue Casa’s remodel

Blue Casa Communications has new owners and a new plan for adding Latino small businesses to its customer rolls in coming years.