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| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Limoneira readies for Wall Street

Top Stories

Santa Paula-based Limoneira is ready to put a sour year behind it as it gears up to become a fully publicly traded company in coming months. In mid-February, the citrus and avocado giant filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission to begin trading its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The move to Wall Read More →

| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Eyeing new concepts

Small Business

Health care reform may be the hottest topic in the United States, but one Goleta medical equipment firm is focusing its attention on developing low-cost medical imaging technology for overseas markets. Pointe Conception Medical is launching what it says is the first integrated and networked endoscopic camera system in the world. The new medical video Read More →

| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Dining dilemma

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Fine dining is a tough business in downtown Santa Barbara. Even a helping hand from a Hollywood star sometimes isn’t enough to pull a family business through. Consider Epiphany Restaurant & Bar. After eight and a half years in business and backing from onetime co-owner Kevin Costner, the Academy Award-winning actor who maintains a villa Read More →

| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Brave new broadband

Uncategorized

In the past few weeks, private-sector and public-sector visions have unfolded for the United States’ 21st-century information infrastructure. The business version has drawn rallies with hundreds of enthusiastic supporters in the Tri-Counties while the broader government plan has generated reserved optimism. Google announced in February that it will install for fiber a city of 50,000 Read More →

| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Banks bring $100M in capital into region

Top Stories

Some $100 million in new capital has poured into tri-county banks in recent weeks, providing a potential new flow of credit to businesses. But how fast that new cash translates into loans depends on the remaining fallout from the recession and what regulators are willing to allow as commercial real estate bottoms. While economists called Read More →

| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Former MySQL exec to spearhead Eucalyptus

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As a chief executive, Marten Mickos took MySQL, the open-source database firm whose technology powers Facebook and other Web sites, from a startup to its $1 billion sale to Sun Microsystems in 2008. On March 19, Mickos became CEO of Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source software firm whose code forms private cloud computing networks and Read More →

| Monday, March 29th, 2010

Economists: coastal regions better than inland, but state faces exodus

Columns

Inland and coastal California might as well be two different worlds — at least that’s the view of California Lutheran University real estate economist Kirk Lesh.   Lesh and the rest of CLU’s forecasting team presented their first economic prophecies for the new year at a March 24 event at the Thousand Oaks campus. Lesh Read More →