Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.
It has been a year and a half since the Santa Barbara News Press, the former longest running daily newspaper in Southern California, shuttered its doors — but the media outlet might have new life in 2025. Ben Romo, a principal at Romo & Associates in Santa Barbara, spearheaded a group dubbed NP 2024 LLC, which bid $285,000 Read More →
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Entrepreneurship is on the rise here in the United States, as Americans are starting and running their own small businesses at record rates as part of a post-pandemic shift. According to the Center for American Progress, the number of startups — defined as businesses under 1 year old — surged in 2022 and 2023, surpassing pre-Great Recession levels for Read More →
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Santa Barbara-based ShelterBox USA is used to delivering aid to those in need, particularly those in third-world countries. But after multiple fires broke out in Los Angeles County beginning on Jan. 7 and scorched thousands of homes, and left many people without shelter, the nonprofit didn’t hesitate for a second about providing a helping hand to its Read More →
Consequences of Sonos’ decision to overhaul and release a new version of its app — one that was riddled with bugs and missing key features — came to fruition on Jan. 13 after the company announced it would be looking for a new CEO to start the new year. Sonos, a maker of speakers, headphones Read More →