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 | Friday, June 21st, 2013

								
2013 Latino Business Awards winners announced

								Features, Small Business								
The Business Times is pleased to announce our 2013 class of Latino Business Awards winners. This annual special section published with the June 21 print edition. The award winners will be honored at an evening reception Thursday, July 18 at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach hotel. [For tickets, call (805) 560-6950 ext. 228.] There were Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

								
Under pressure to sell itself, Vitesse plans $30M stock offering

								Banking & Finance, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies								
Shares of Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. were down 15 percent to $2.30 in mid-day trading June 19 as the company announced a public stock offering to raise up to $30 million. The move comes as the company faces pressure from Columbia Pacific Advisors, an investment firm that owns nearly 10 percent of Vitesse, to sell Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Thursday, June 13th, 2013

								
SBNC raises $50K after call for funding

								Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Nonprofits								
After an urgent call for funding from the community two weeks ago, the nonprofit Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics said it has received more than $50,000 from community groups and philanthropists. At a press briefing on May 22, the group said it was in a “financial emergency” and would have to close its doors by the Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

								
Dole CEO offers $1.1 billion to take firm private

								Banking & Finance, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies								
Westlake Village-based Dole Food Co.’s stock soared more than 21 percent Tuesday morning as CEO David Murdock made a cash offer of $12 a share for the 60 percent of the company he doesn’t own in a deal valued at $1.1 billion. Dole is one of the biggest producers and importers of fresh fruit and Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Monday, June 10th, 2013

								
Cal Poly names interim business deans

								Latest news, Small Business								
Doug Cerf, area chair for accounting and business law at the Orfalea College of Business, will serve as interim dean starting July 1. Cerf has been area chair for accounting and business law since 2007, and a Cal Poly faculty member since 1990. The announcement was made in a news release from Cal Poly. Cerf’s Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, June 7th, 2013

								
Cool Planet funding hits $54M

								Green Coast, Latest news, Technology								
Camarillo-based Cool Planet Energy Systems said on Friday that it had raised $29.9 million of what it expects to be a $100 million funding round for its first grass-to-fuel plant production facility. Cool Planet, which has received funding from Google Ventures and BP in the past, has designed a machine that uses heat and pressure Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Thursday, May 30th, 2013

								
Goleta to sue state over missing RDA funds

								Latest news								
The city of Goleta is taking on the big guys as it brings a lawsuit against the state, officials told community and business leaders at an event on May 30. Calling the lawsuit a “David vs. Goliath moment” at Goleta’s annual State of the City luncheon, Mayor Roger Aceves said the city will file papers Read More →