By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Eyeing an IPO: InTouch brings public company executive on board
In its quest to go public, InTouch Health is getting the band back together in its executive suite.
There’s less venture capital to start technology businesses, and most of it is being crammed into existing firms rather than raw startups. But for new entrepreneurs who have a viable product in a large market with the team that can make it happen, there are as many opportunities as ever to get started and get Read More →
Barely a month after rolling out 3G wireless phone service in Santa Barbara, Cox Communications cut off the offering effective today. Faster competitors and a lack of the iPhone doomed the plan, the company said. A local spokeswoman said that though the rollout in Santa Barbara was going well, a nationwide order to halt the Read More →
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 4th, 2011 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on Rebooting South Coast tech, byte by byte
Business and civic leaders across the region have started to recognize the South Coast’s bevy of software, hardware and ecommerce firms for the economic gems that they are.
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 4th, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Big name in backup: Global Power Supply keeps Facebook’s lights on
GPS customers are “critical facilities” such as law enforcement operations centers, hospitals, payment servers at big financial firms or data centers for top-shelf tech companies.
New Noise Santa Barbara, a digital music conference featuring industry panels and 50 bands in three days, is gearing up for its third year. New Noise will happen from Nov. 3-5 and is the smaller West Coast analogue to South by Southwest, the massive festival held every year in Austin, Tex. that brings together technology Read More →
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, October 28th, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Shaking up science: UCSB team derives formula for oil and water
A team at UC Santa Barbara has derived a formula to describe why oil and water don’t mix.
