LinkedIn picks up Lynda.com to lift content offerings
The social networking platform is acquiring Carpinteria-based Lynda.com in a $1.5 billion cash and stock deal.
Capps exit from D.C. to reshape Central Coast politics
The Congresswoman will leave behind a legacy as a staunch environmentalist and party loyalist who also developed a reputation for supporting small business and building relationships with her political foes.
SB retail property has new owner in eight-figure deal
The complex on State Street along Highway 101, anchored by REI, was previously purchased in two separate deals for about $13 million between 2005 and 2010.
Solar3D up-lists to NASDAQ on strength of acquisitions
The firm raked in $20.2 million in revenue for 2014 and reported operating income of $311,072, compared to an operating loss of $1.1 million for the same period in 2013.
Independent bookstores on decline as Granada Books shuts doors
With the rise of book-selling giants like Borders and Barnes & Noble in the 1990s, followed by digitized selling popularized by Amazon in the new millennium, independently owned bookstores like Granada have become a rarity.
