Friendlier fun: Zindagi taps market for non-violent video games
Features, TechnologyZindagi seeks to bring a friendlier face to a video game industry focused on gunning down or blowing up fellow players.
Letter to the editor: Business Times is a must-read
Letters to the Editor, OpinionI find it informative, easy to read and filled with valuable information.
From unemployed to self-employed: New law ignores moral hazard
Op/Eds, OpinionIf Uncle Sam would pay you to become unemployed for six months and then create a small business, wouldn’t you want to become an entrepreneur?
Salem earnings soar 195%
Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:SALM” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”08-09-2011″ enddate=”08-03-2012″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Camarillo-based Salem Communications, a conservative and Christian radio broadcaster, increased profits 195 percent to $5.6 million in 2011, the company said March 8. Salem owns or operates 95 radio stations in the U.S., more than half of which are in the nation’s top 25 radio markets. Read More →
QAD profits skyrocket
Latest newsTwo years after making deep staff cuts to combat the global manufacturing collapse, Santa Barbara-based QAD profits rebounded 300 percent to $10.7 million in fiscal 2012, the company said March 8. QAD makes software that manufacturing firms use to track materials, labor and other costs. The company counts Hewlett-Packard and other Fortune 500 firms as Read More →
Semtech breaks profit record, buys French wireless firm
Banking & Finance, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesChipmaker Semtech beat analysts expectations by two cents a share and set a profit record while continuing its streak of acquisitions on March 7. Semtech broke its year-end records with profits up 23 percent to $89 million on net sales of $480 million, a 5 percent increase that was also a new high for the Read More →
Calavo Q1 earnings up 16%
Agribusiness, Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesAvocado marketer Calavo Growers reported March 5 that first-quarter profits were up 16 percent to $2.7 million as revenues climbed almost a third to $117.4 million. The Santa Paula-based company said the first-quarter results set the stage for a potentially record-breaking year for the firm, which last year made a major acquisition of Renaissance Food Read More →
