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By pacbiztimes / Friday, August 7th, 2015 / Columns, Nonprofits, Real Estate / Comments Off on Goleta nonprofit Direct Relief moving forward with building
Goleta-based nonprofit Direct Relief is one step closer to building a new 155,000-square-foot facility by the Santa Barbara Airport where it could produce and distribute humanitarian aid, medicine and other vital supplies to impoverished and disaster-stricken communities around the world. The Santa Barbara Architectural Board of Review continued the project after its first concept review Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, August 7th, 2015 / Columns, Health Care & Life Science, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Dubroff: Washington dysfunction over taxes could cost jobs in Tri-Counties
This is a column about how dysfunction in Washington is handing billions over to Wall Street while threatening thousands of jobs on the Central Coast. Just a year ago, Allergan shut its Goleta breast implant operation after it came under siege from corporate raiders, Activis, a New Jersey-based company that used an acquisition in Ireland Read More →
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By Guest commentary / Friday, August 7th, 2015 / Op/Eds / Comments Off on Emergence of the ‘dependent contractor’
A recent decision by the state Division of Labor Standards Enforcement has greatly shaken the California business community. The ruling found that an Uber driver is an “employee” and not an “independent contractor” as the entire industry had previously presumed. Although this decision only pertains to that specific case, it could end up changing the Read More →
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By Henry Dubroff / Friday, August 7th, 2015 / Editorials, Opinion / Comments Off on Donald channels Arnold in taking on GOP brass
We have seen this movie before. A larger-than-life figure in entertainment and business struts on to the political stage and captivates an audience of disaffected conservatives. Never mind that his personal politics are fairly liberal — it’s the appearance of control and command that pushes the conventional candidates out of the way. Once the momentum Read More →
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By Glenn Rabinowitz / Friday, August 7th, 2015 / Op/Eds, Opinion / Comments Off on Can commercialism, professionalism co-exist in accounting profession?
What we see today in the accounting profession is troubling. Increased commercial activities threatens the independence cornerstone of the profession that underlies its public interest obligation. Audit firms are pushing the envelope in their involvement with non-audit services that makes it appear as though they might compromise their independence on the audit because of these Read More →
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By Staff Report / Thursday, August 6th, 2015 / Earnings, Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Appfolio reports $3.2 million loss for second quarter
Appfolio lost $3.2 million during the second quarter, the company reported Aug. 6. Goleta-based Appfolio makes property management software for small-to medium-sized real estate managers. Revenues were up 59 percent in the second quarter of 2015 from $11.6 million last year to $18.4 million this year. Appfolio lost 34 cents per share, which met analyst Read More →
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By Staff Report / Thursday, August 6th, 2015 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on UCSB researchers create underwater super glue
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara created a new type of super glue for underwater use by studying how mussels, oysters and barnacles stick to rocks. Researchers saw a need for adhesives that stick underwater. Because synthetic adhesives do not work well, UCSB scientists Jacob Israelachvili, Michael Rapp, Greg Maier, Herb Waite and Alison Butler turned Read More →
