Sonos pays $100M for Dutch audio component company
Santa Barbara-based Sonos added to its home audio arsenal on April 11 when it announced the purhcase of Netherlands-based Mayht for $100 million in cash. Mayht specializes in audio transducers, the foundational element within speakers that creates sound. Sonos said in a news release announcing the acquisition that Mayht has “re-engineered” transducers to make them Read More →
Deadline extended: Take our Central Coast Best Places to Work survey
Update: Our Best Places to Work employee survey was originally scheduled to close on April 1. We have extended the deadline and will close the survey during the day on April 11. Do you love where you work? Merely like it? Whatever the answer, the Pacific Coast Business Times wants to hear about it. On Read More →
Region’s unemployment rate climbs to 4.6% in January
The unemployment rates in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties all ticked up between December and January as the omicron wave of COVID-19 worsened, according to data released March 11 by the California Employment Development Department. The combined unemployment rate for the tri-county region was 4.6% in January, up from 4% in December. Read More →
Mission Produce shares tumble after report of Q1 losses
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At Westmont breakfast, author Michael Lewis talks of Santa Barbara’s ‘superhero of communicable disease’
On March 6, 2020, Westmont College held its annual President’s Breakfast, which would be one of the last large indoor, public events in the region before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. The guest was Nobel-winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman. This year on March 4, at the event’s return to the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, Read More →
Dubroff: Helping the people of Ukraine is a natural fit for Santa Barbara’s Direct Relief
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Central Coast Innovation Awards publication and event honor groundbreaking companies in the region
The Pacific Coast Business Times is pleased to announce this year’s Central Coast Innovation Award winners. The section, which is now in its seventh year, published with the Feb. 25 print edition and can be viewed online here. The special report highlights five companies and individuals that are pushing the envelope in their work, and Read More →
