Ready for liftoff: Local Market Launch gets $1.5M in first VC funding round
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Editorial: Rethinking the state’s broken unemployment system
More than 500,000 Californians receive as much as $450 per week in unemployment benefits that until recently could last for 99 weeks.
Santa Maria rolls out its first-ever Startup Weekend
Springtime is startup time in the Tri-Counties. This April, a new Startup Weekend event in Santa Maria and UC Santa Barbara’s annual New Venture Fair both sprouted a new corps of ideas. Here’s a closer look at each. SM startups Startup Weekend events, where teams of designers, business minds and coders come together to go Read More →
Rosetta settles in, Adamksi named CEO
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CRE brokers: Bacara sold for as much as $180M, buoying market
The sale of Bacara Resort & Spa, a transaction industry insiders are pegging at a $150 million to $180 million deal, buoyed the South Coast commercial real estate market in the first quarter of the year. That was the view from Radius Commercial Real Estate & Investments in its latest quarterly market report. Radius noted Read More →
Dole reports Q1 loss after spinning off packaged food business
Dole Food Co. reported a first-quarter loss of $65.6 million, largely due to its packaged foods operations, which have since been discontinued and sold to a Japanese firm for $1.7 billion in cash. The Westlake Village-based produce giant sold its global packaged foods and Asia fresh produce businesses to Itochu Corp. in a deal that Read More →
