Textbook hookup: Students develop tract-sharing app
A trio of UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurs wants to revolutionize the $5.5 billion U.S. textbook market with their book-sharing application 1night.me.
Brave new biotech: Camarillo startup launches first products
PBS Biotech, a Camarillo-based startup, is bringing its first products to market.
Amgen drug shows blockbuster promise
Putting test results behind the talk at its recent product pipeline review, Thousand Oaks-based Amgen on May 17 released promising results for the Xgeva variant of its potential blockbuster bone drug denosumab.
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.
Software firms trade espionage claims
The two largest property management software firms in the nation are locked in a court battle over alleged corporate espionage.
Santa Barbara startups scramble to find homes
A group of technology veterans and a State Street landowner are working to secure a new home for dozens of tenants — many of them startup companies — that were recently given 30 days to pack up and leave the technology center at 402 E. Gutierrez St. in Santa Barbara.
