Horse power: Platinum Performance taps equine and human markets
FeaturesMark Herthel could have gone to veterinary school and followed his father’s distinguished career in equine medicine, but he wanted to be a businessman. So he went to school to study agriculture and food science and turned a startup equine nutrition company into a multimillion-dollar business. Buellton-based Platinum Performance sells to some of the biggest Read More →
A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy
Columns, TechnologyLast week, I spoke with Fareed Zakaria, an author and editor-at-large for Time magazine as well as a CNN host. He’s put a lot of thought into the “rise of the rest” — that is, what the post-American world is going to look like.
You can trot out the statistics of your choice to show how America is fast losing its technological edge. We lag other countries in math and science scores. But Zakaria pointed out a number to me that’s much more foreboding — citations in peer-reviewed research.
Network Hardware expansion signals technology turnaround
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Why developers are building new homes in the region again
Columns, Real EstateA few homebuilders are cautiously tiptoeing off the sidelines and putting new single-family inventory on the market.
Construction heating up at giant Santa Maria greenhouse project
Columns, Real EstateWindset Farms is building a gigantic hothouse in Santa Maria.
