Dubroff: Central Coast technology hub makes a quantum leap
At the height of the dot-com bubble, the Central Coast made news because the Santa Barbara area had more domain name registrations per capita than any city in the nation. Twenty years later, there is talk about a new dot-com bubble and the Central Coast is in the news again. On Oct. 23, Google’s parent, Read More →
Tri-county Halloween sales steady despite expected national decline
Retailers in the Tri-Counties aren’t frightened by projections of a national decline in Halloween spending. Shoppers are expected to spend $8.8 billion this year, down from 2018’s $9 billion, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey. Although only 36 percent of consumers plan to make their purchases at specialty costume stores, seasonal pop-up shops Read More →
Disasters strain tri-county donors and nonprofits
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Two Central Coast technology companies raise $150 million
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Google makes breakthrough in quantum computing at South Coast lab
Google has developed a computer that’s reached “quantum supremacy,” performing a computation in 200 seconds that would take the fastest supercomputers about 10,000 years, Bloomberg News reported. The results of Google’s tests, which were conducted using a quantum chip it developed in-house at its lab in Goleta, were published Oct. 23 in the scientific journal Read More →
Engie U.S. Wind inks deal with Walmart
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Invoca nets $56 million venture deal
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