March 29, 2024

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Friday, August 11th, 2023

Vital signs: Apartment prices remain stingy across Central Coast

Banking & Finance, Columns, Latest news, Personal Finance, Subscriber content

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| Thursday, August 10th, 2023

Herbl’s high hopes run out of green

Agribusiness, Latest news, Top Stories, Top Story, Tri-County Economy

For the majority of the past five years, Goleta-based Herbl was shipping a lot of cannabis and making a lot of green in the process, reporting that sales exceeded $200 million in 2022.  But as of August 2023, the company has largely ceased operations and filed for receivership. Once the largest cannabis distributor in the Read More →

| Wednesday, August 9th, 2023

Olaplex fails to meet expectations again, lowers guidance

Earnings, Latest news, Subscriber content, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

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| Wednesday, August 9th, 2023

MannKind excites investors, analysts after huge bump in sales

Earnings, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, left, middle, Subscriber content, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

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| Friday, August 4th, 2023

Mercado: Region’s AI scene highlights diversity among tech companies

Columns, Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Tri-County Economy

A lot of the focus on the technology scene along the Central Coast this year has been on biotechnology — and rightfully so given the sprawl we are seeing pop up in the Conejo Valley. But something that isn’t quite so obvious on the surface is the amount of artificial intelligence you could find up Read More →

| Friday, August 4th, 2023

Street smarts: Sonos joins the environmental initiative to protect the seas

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| Friday, August 4th, 2023

Vital signs: Californians fall prey to investment fraud

Economy, Latest news, Personal Finance, Subscriber content

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