Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, April 12th, 2010
Top Stories A three-way fight is breaking out to offer evening master’s of business administration classes in Santa Barbara. The latest entrant is Pepperdine University, which struck a sponsorship deal April 8 with the University of California, Santa Barbara, Alumni Association to tap the association’s events and e-mails to advertise the school’s nighttime MBA program in Westlake Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Sunday, April 11th, 2010
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Wal-Mart has submitted a scaled-down revision for its plans to build a supercenter store in Atascadero, the Tribune reported. The retail giant now proposes a 123,112-square-foot retail and grocery building, including a pharmacy, although it will no longer be a drive-through, and a 6,448-square-foot outdoor garden center, the newspaper reported. A tire and lube express Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, April 5th, 2010
Top Stories Thanks to a law firm’s $10,000 contribution to an assemblymember’s campaign for Insurance Commissioner, a Santa Barbara agent’s crusade to get small-business coverage looks like one more piece of political theater in a tough election year. On March 23, Brent Anderson filed a complaint with the California Department of Insurance against Blue Shield of California Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, April 5th, 2010
Technology A young company spun out of technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has developed a machine that could for the first time measure the strength of bones in living patients. Founded in 2007, Active Life’s device creates a micro-crack about 100th of a millimeter wide in patients’ bones. Now in early trials in Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, April 5th, 2010
Top Stories An international medical nonprofit, the chairman of Oracle Corp. and a top female software entrepreneur will be honored at the region’s biggest business and technology fundraiser. The South Coast Business & Technology Awards Dinner in Santa Barbara is in its 16th year. Regularly drawing more than 600 guests and 70 corporate sponsors to Fess Parker’s Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, April 5th, 2010
Top Stories Tri-county hospitals are ready to put the recession behind them as they look toward the brave new world of health care reform. For the most part, reform means area hospitals will receive less for reimbursements but will have fewer uninsured patients coming through the system. “The net effect will be the reduction in charity care,” Read More →
Pacific Coast Business Times Staff | Monday, April 5th, 2010
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Few businesses are more intertwined with the history of their communities than San Luis Obispo insurance agency Morris & Garritano. Founded in 1885 on Higuera Street, the agency has changed names over the decades but has been in business in San Luis Obispo for 125 years. With about 75 employees today, the company has a Read More →
