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A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy

By   /  Wednesday, May 11th, 2011  /  Columns, Technology  /  Comments Off on A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy

Last 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.

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SLO business and government law firm attracts big-city clients

By   /  Wednesday, May 11th, 2011  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on SLO business and government law firm attracts big-city clients

Since 2004, San Luis Obispo County firm Carmel & Naccasha has expanded from its two founders to nine staff attorneys and five of-counsel attorneys by blending business and government agency law expertise. And perhaps no one is more surprised at the firm’s quick growth than partner Ziyad Naccasha, a San Luis Obispo native who moved Read More →

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Network Hardware expansion signals technology turnaround

By   /  Friday, May 6th, 2011  /  Columns  /  Comments Off on Network Hardware expansion signals technology turnaround

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Award adds spark to our new ventures

By   /  Friday, May 6th, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Award adds spark to our new ventures

Pacific Coast Business Times is the winner of a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in news.

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Cable wars put Central Coast in play

By   /  Friday, May 6th, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Cable wars put Central Coast in play

Consolidation appears to be on the way for the Central Coast’s Balkanized lineup of telecom providers. But precisely how the lineup will look if and when Charter Communications unloads its North Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties holdings is hard to say. In a report that remains to be fully confirmed, Bloomberg News reported Read More →

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Why developers are building new homes in the region again

By   /  Friday, May 6th, 2011  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Why developers are building new homes in the region again

A few homebuilders are cautiously tiptoeing off the sidelines and putting new single-family inventory on the market.

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Construction heating up at giant Santa Maria greenhouse project

By   /  Friday, April 29th, 2011  /  Columns, Real Estate  /  Comments Off on Construction heating up at giant Santa Maria greenhouse project

Windset Farms is building a gigantic hothouse in Santa Maria.