January 12, 2025

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Friday, April 29th, 2022

Patagonia, oil companies face off in Ventura County ballot campaign over drilling regulations

Energy, Latest news, Law & Goverment, Regions, Subscriber content, Top Stories, Top Story, Ventura County

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| Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Amgen shares drop after earnings release and disclosure of $5B tax dispute

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, left, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

When Thousand Oaks-based Amgen released its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 on April 27, the biggest surprise didn’t come from its dip in net profits or rise in revenue, but from a tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service. Amgen said it received a notice of deficiency from the IRS on April Read More →

| Wednesday, April 27th, 2022

Teledyne reports record revenue, earnings beat in Q1

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Regions, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies, Ventura County

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| Friday, April 22nd, 2022

Agriculture, medical tech win big at AngelCon

Agribusiness, Higher Education, San Luis Obispo County, Startups, Technology, Top Stories

San Luis Obispo-based AcreCloud won $135,0000 in cash at the fifth annual AngelCon April 21, hosted by The Cal Poly Center for Innovation for Entrepreneurship Small Business Development Center. AcreCloud was one of two agriculture technology companies in this year’s six-group lineup, specializing in a farm-management platform that gives growers and contractors customized control over Read More →

| Thursday, April 21st, 2022

Green Hills Software founder launches run for U.S. Senate

Latest news, Law & Goverment, Regions, Santa Barbara County, Technology, Top Stories

Dan O’Dowd has been a staple of the Santa Barbara business community for decades, founding Green Hills Software in 1982 and building it into a multimillion-dollar company. Now he has his sights set on something bigger: the United States Senate. O’Dowd announced April 19 that he is running for a Senate seat from California. He Read More →

| Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

Trade Desk CEO made $835M in 2021, region’s biggest payday ever

Banking & Finance, Latest news, left, Regions, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies, Ventura County

Jeff Green, the CEO and co-founder of The Trade Desk, received $835 million in total compensation in 2021, the biggest pay package in Central Coast history and likely the biggest of any CEO in the United States last year. The Ventura-based online advertising company disclosed its executive pay for 2021 in an April 12 filing Read More →

| Monday, April 18th, 2022

In visit to Vandenberg, Harris announces U.S. plans to cease anti-satellite tests

Latest news, Law & Goverment, left, Regions, Santa Barbara County, Top Stories

Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States will be the first country to ban anti-satellite weapons testing, during a speech she delivered April 18 at Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc. An anti-satellite weapon test is a military demonstration where a spacecraft in orbit is destroyed using a missile system, and the tests Read More →