November 5, 2025

		

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.


| 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

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| Friday, August 4th, 2023

Amgen CEO leads tri-county public company executives 

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Bob Bradway, Amgen’s CEO since May of 2012, raked in the most of any executive of a public company based on the Central Coast in 2022, generating a total compensation worth $21.4 million, according to a Business Times study. According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Bradway pulled in a base salary Read More →

| Friday, August 4th, 2023

AppFolio’s investments in AI paying off

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

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