Get a move on: StartupWeekend winner taps sharing economy for moving
Moving is never fun, but a Santa Barbara startup is hoping to make it a little less stressful by connecting people who need to move with nearby truck owners looking to earn extra money. NextMover bills its service, which launched earlier this year, as “your friend with a truck.”
Tri-county energy firms: our Monterey shale will pay off
Federal officials have slashed their estimate for how much oil is held in California’s Monterey shale by 96 percent, but energy companies working in the Tri-Counties say they have no plans to abandon their efforts in the long-producing formation or its rising competitor, the diatomite.
SCOTUS ruling was key to firm’s patent victory
With a late-in-the-game assist from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, FindTheBest has won the right to recover its costs in what a federal judge called a “frivolous” and “objectively unreasonable” patent lawsuit brought against it.
Isla Vista tragedy shows the dark side of paradise
The densely packed student community has been rocked by two high-profile gang rapes, drunken riots quelled with tear gas and, on May 23, a bloody killing rampage that killed six innocent people and injured 13 others.
Isla Vista shooting spree reignites gun control debate
Questions about guns and the ease with which mentally ill people can obtain them have been thrust into the center of the debate about what caused Friday night’s massacre in Isla Vista.
