Santa Barbara startups scramble to find homes
A group of technology veterans and a State Street landowner are working to secure a new home for dozens of tenants — many of them startup companies — that were recently given 30 days to pack up and leave the technology center at 402 E. Gutierrez St. in Santa Barbara.
Scaling up: Cloud computing firm expands to double its space
RightScale is taking over 26,000 square feet of space in downtown Santa Barbara.
Editorial: Never count out an American comeback
Anyone who’s attempted to run a business of any size during the past decade knows just how difficult the role of entrepreneur can be. In addition to the peculiar difficulties of operating in California, there has been a persistent backdrop of bad news — the dot-bomb fiasco, the housing bubble, the housing collapse, the ongoing Read More →
Smaller, better, faster: Goleta photonics firm looks for a breakthrough
Goleta-based startup Aurrion is working on silicon photonics integration.
Cable wars put Central Coast in play
Consolidation appears to be on the way for the Central Coast’s Balkanized lineup of telecom providers. But precisely how the lineup will look if and when Charter Communications unloads its North Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties holdings is hard to say. In a report that remains to be fully confirmed, Bloomberg News reported Read More →
Why developers are building new homes in the region again
A few homebuilders are cautiously tiptoeing off the sidelines and putting new single-family inventory on the market.
