Mid-year newsroom update: New faces, new look and our 15th
With 2014 nearly at the half-way mark, I thought it would be a good time for a mid-year report from the Business Times newsroom. First, I’d like to introduce Elijah Brumback, who joined our news team as a staff writer on June 2. Brumback previously worked for MiBiz, a bi-monthly business magazine based in Grand Read More →
Natural Café banks on new locations for growing chain
Kelly Brown is the first to admit that he let the success of his restaurant empire cloud his judgement. As a free-spirited young chef, Brown lived on a boat in the Santa Barbara harbor so that he could build equity to start his own business. Twenty-one years ago, he launched Natural Café in Santa Barbara, hoping to offer a laidback sit-down restaurant focused on affordable, unpretentious and health-conscious food.
California M&A surge could reach Tri-Counties’ corporate world
There are signs that the takeover wave that’s engulfed many sectors, notably pharmaceuticals and high-tech, may soon wash up on the beaches of the Tri-Counties.
Ansible makes it easy to crack the code in the cloud
Whether you call it software-as-a-service or the cloud, Web-hosted code has been around for nearly a decade and has delivered on two key promises: As an end user, your browser is connected to a vastly more powerful computer than you could otherwise afford, and you’re always running the latest version of the software because it’s been updated across all servers. But up there in the cloud, a lot of work is going on behind the scenes.
Violence underscores the need to bring Isla Vista in from the cold
Violent sexual assaults, street riots and now this tragedy mean that Isla Vista will increasingly be viewed as a place that is unsafe for parents to send their children, especially young women.
Editor’s comment: From rants to rampage, many questions unanswered
The horrific rampage in Isla Vista on the Friday before Memorial Day was the work of a lone gunman with a history of psychological issues. Anyone who has seen a fragment of the YouTube video that Elliot Rodger posted shortly before committing what Sheriff Bill Brown calls a “mass murder” will almost certainly find it Read More →
SolarWorld learns what it’s like to be targeted by China
Two years ago, teams at SolarWorld’s sales office in Camarillo and production center in Hillsboro, Oregon, were hurrying to complete a Department of Commerce anti-dumping complaint against Chinese competitors when they received an urgent communication. An FBI field office in Camarillo wanted to give SolarWorld an important heads-up. Proprietary information had been hacked and the Read More →
