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Editorial Department


| Monday, September 20th, 2010

Power-One rides solar to sales growth

Top Stories

In the space of a month, Power-One has opened two factories in North America and become the second-largest maker of inverters for solar panels in the world. The Camarillo firm opened factories in Ontario, Canada, and Phoenix. Canadian production has already started, and production lines in Arizona are set to fire up in October, creating Read More →

| Monday, September 20th, 2010

Editorial: Time for UCSB to engineer a new dean

Opinion

For more than a year there’s been a looming gap in the leadership structure of the region’s technology sector. The departure of Matt Tirrell from UC Santa Barbara, after a decade of exemplary performance as dean at the UCSB College of Engineering, created a void that’s yet to be filled. Tirrell’s term was extraordinary for Read More →

| Monday, September 20th, 2010

High-wireless acts: Row 44, Sonos capitalize on move toward WiFi

Uncategorized

The world is going wireless, and two tri-county firms have raised $62 million as proof. Westlake Village-based Row 44 and Santa Barbara-based Sonos are building businesses around consumers’ burgeoning demand to stay connected to their digital lives wherever they are. Row 44 operates an in-flight wireless Internet service and is installing it on Southwest Airlines’ Read More →

| Monday, September 20th, 2010

Carpinteria

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Carpinteria is home to some of the largest private and public companies on the South Coast, including Clipper Windpower, CKE Restaurants and Lynda.com. But the small seaside city has seen its commercial real estate market stagnate over the past year, jumping up to a 14.6 percent industrial vacancy rate. Online software training firm Lynda.com started Read More →

| Monday, September 13th, 2010

Investigation puts Oxnard

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Oxnard’s efforts to rebrand itself as an “international city” may suffer as county and federal agents investigate the possible misappropriation of public money and conflicts of interest among city officials. But the ordeal should be “a footnote in history” by the time serious marketing of the new image begins several years from now, business leaders Read More →

| Monday, September 13th, 2010

Two more developers in SLO file for bankruptcy protection

Columns

It’s not just prominent hotelier John King who’s struggling in San Luis Obispo County. Smaller developers and real estate investors are having a hard time, too. San Luis Obispo-based Barkwood Development filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late July, listing $2.4 million in liabilities and $7.5 million in assets. In an unrelated case filed Read More →

| Monday, September 13th, 2010

For a song, and $81.5M: L.A. firms buy Serenade apartments.

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When the Seranade apartment complex in Oxnard’s RiverPark development was sold Sept. 2 for $81.5 million, it was the biggest apartment sale in Ventura County in years. It was also a bet by its new owners that Oxnard has enough white-collar workers to support the 400-unit luxury complex. Three Los Angeles-area firms — Urban Partners, Read More →