Bren School students get grant for biochar project
A startup spun out of UC Santa Barbara is seeking to use the ashes of forest burns to give new life to farmers’ fields.
RVPlusYou rides rental craze
The Nipomo group riffs off the highly successful short-term rental market tapped by sharing economy darling Airbnb.
State files suit against Santa Paula environmental cleanup firm
The California Water Resources Control Board has taken an environmental contracting firm in Santa Paula to court, claiming the company overcharged the public in collecting some $17 million in payments for petroleum cleanups during the past eight years.
Growing the logical way
LogicMonitor now has about 1,000 customers, which means more like 10,000 companies are using the software since many of its clients are managed service providers, including Symquest and CIO Solutions.
SLO project sets course for city’s growth
The city’s Long-Bonetti Ranch project, which includes a proposal for a public market, is being billed as the next trendy retail center on the Central Coast.
Mood ring, rebooted: SelfEcho’s app tracks psychological metrics
The team behind Santa Barbara-based startup SelfEcho is betting that big data can help us better understand ourselves.
Amgen profit tops analysts’ estimates on drug sales, tax credit
Amgen, the nation’s biggest biotech company, reported fourth-quarter profits that beat analysts’ estimates, aided by a tax benefit and higher-than-estimated sales of arthritis drug Enbrel.
