Cal Poly students tap crowdfunding to build playground in South Africa
By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, May 9th, 2014 / Nonprofits, Real Estate, Top Stories / Comments Off on Cal Poly students tap crowdfunding to build playground in South Africa
A group of Cal Poly landscape architecture students and alumni are working to make the world a better place, one playground at a time.
Vapor Hub hopes to lead the way in $3B e-cigarette market
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 9th, 2014 / East Ventura County, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Vapor Hub hopes to lead the way in $3B e-cigarette market
With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration promising to impose regulations on the free-for-all e-cigarette market, Simi Valley-based Vapor Hub International is hoping to help the industry grow up.
A fully baked idea: After TV success, Sweet Arleen’s goes nationwide
By Tom Bronzini / Friday, May 9th, 2014 / Small Business, Top Stories / Comments Off on A fully baked idea: After TV success, Sweet Arleen’s goes nationwide
Arleen Scavone, three-time champion in the Food Network’s televised “Cupcake Wars,” used a winning formula that she now hopes will help turn her Westlake Village boutique cupcake shop into a national brand.
Counting crops: Linkfresh makes planning software for food firms
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 9th, 2014 / Agribusiness, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Counting crops: Linkfresh makes planning software for food firms
A Ventura company is bringing the same kind of sophisticated software that global manufacturers use to run their businesses to the fresh food industry.
HG Data funding rises to $5.5M
By Stephen Nellis / Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on HG Data funding rises to $5.5M
Santa Barbara-based HG Data has raised $2 million in venture capital, bringing its total raised to date to $5.5 million. HG Data uses a proprietary algorithm to sift through massive amounts of messy online data to create a database of which software and hardware products are in use at about 1 million U.S companies. Fortune Read More →
Santa Maria Energy shelves $79M going-public deal
By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 2nd, 2014 / Central Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Santa Maria Energy shelves $79M going-public deal
A $79 million merger that would have taken Santa Maria Energy public has been called off after its financiers couldn’t gather the votes to pass it.
Cable swap would create regional duopoly for TV and broadband
By Henry Dubroff / Friday, May 2nd, 2014 / Central Coast, East Ventura County, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Cable swap would create regional duopoly for TV and broadband
A cable television deal announced in preliminary form on April 28 would give the tri-county media landscape its most dramatic makeover in years, consolidating control over local cable advertising and business broadband service into the hands of just two major players. As proposed, Charter Communication and Comcast would swap millions of customers nationwide. The swaps Read More →