Star woos Hispanic readers with Siglo21
The Ventura County Star has teamed up with Oxnard-based Spanish-language radio network Lazer Broadcasting to offer a free weekly newspaper aimed at Ventura County’s Latino community. The two are distributing 20,000 copies of a relaunched Siglo21 to 275 locations, mostly in West Ventura County. The newspaper hit stands about eight weeks ago. George Cogswell, the Read More →
Park cuts protested – Businesses say closures would hurt tourism, jobs
Tourism officials, superintendents and small business owners in the Tri-Counties agree on one thing — shutting state parks, including 21 in the Tri-Counties, is the wrong way to cut the budget deficit. They say closing the parks, a part of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s austerity program, will result in reduced sales tax revenue, lost jobs and Read More →
Ring around the revenue – Company raises $3.5M for phone venture
Just a year and a half after its founding, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue has raised $3.5 million in venture capital, signed up the biggest customer in its target market and is hiring fast. RingRevenue has developed a technology to let advertisers track phone calls the same way they currently track clicks. At the core of the Read More →
Camarillo firm outfoxes Sean Hannity
Fox News commentator Sean Hannity has picked a fight with the wrong guy. He’s gotten under the skin of Matt Kolb, the president of National Coatings Corp., a small, successful roofing materials company based in Camarillo. Kolb, to put it mildly, is steamed about Hannity’s inopportune wisecracks about white roof coatings. National Coatings Corp. is Read More →
With Cisco
The recession has sped up the U.S. economy’s ongoing shift from forging iron to moving electrons and ones and zeros. That will become clear June 8, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average kicks out General Motors and replaces it with Internet backbone giant Cisco. Dow Jones announced the move — along with the replacement of Read More →
Crackdown on bank lending has trickle-down effect on property
Today’s economy demands a hard, objective look at cash flow, a company’s debt service and leasehold/rent costs before a business can legitimately qualify for a sale or financing opportunities as outlined by new Small Business Administration guidelines. At least that’s what Randall Barondess says. Barondess, director of the Thousand Oaks-based Business Brokerage Division of Troop Read More →
Business candidates bring ideas into politics
One of the remarkable things about the dismal state of California’s fiscal affairs is that businesspeople of many political persuasions are not twiddling their thumbs or burying their heads in the sand. The proliferation of candidates from the business community bodes well for the region’s future economic health. Anyone who has run a business or Read More →
