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By Austen Hufford / Friday, July 11th, 2014 / Small Business, Technology, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Playing your cards right: How to pick a payment processing service
The Business Times spoke with several retailers and merchant-processing services to find out what sorts of factors small-business owners should weigh when deciding on a point-of-sales system.
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By Stephen Nellis / Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 / Agribusiness, East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Ceres inks deal to sell plant genetics software
Shares of Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm Ceres were up 8 percent in midday trading on news that the company inked a deal to monetize its genome viewing software through a deal with Bayer CropScience.
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By Staff Report / Monday, July 7th, 2014 / Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Clean Diesel names new CEO
Ventura-based Clean Diesel Technologies has promoted Christopher Harris to president and CEO, filling a vacancy created by former chief executive Craig Breese’s sudden departure in late 2013. Harris joined Clean Diesel as chief operations officer in late 2010, with the merger of Clean Diesel and Catalytic Solutions. He has served as the company’s chief operating Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 4th, 2014 / Agribusiness, Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Apeel blooms: Startup gets $1.3M to explore flower, produce coatings
Apeel Sciences has raised $1.3 million and is working on a new product for flower growers to complement its existing efforts to prevent fruit and produce losses to pests and spoilage.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 4th, 2014 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on GoTek revs up global plans as it secures rotary engine patent
GoTek’s detailed patent drawings make clear once and for all that its engine is definitively not a Wankel, or anything close to it.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 4th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on AppScale refines cloud technology, signs major clients
A year after commercializing its code, Santa Barbara-based AppScale Systems has released a major update to its cloud-hopping technology and is signing up partners and customers such as IBM and Chico’s.