Fashion designer Heidi Merrick to keynote Top Women
Latest news, Women Inc.Fashion designer Heidi Merrick will keynote the Pacific Coast Business Times’ awards event for its annual Top Women in Business special section. The event, held April 12 in Santa Barbara, will feature Merrick, a native of Carpinteria and daughter of famed surfboard shaper Al Merrick. Merrick launched her line of clothing in 2007, and the Read More →
Letter to the editor: Business Times is a must-read
Letters to the Editor, OpinionI find it informative, easy to read and filled with valuable information.
Friendlier fun: Zindagi taps market for non-violent video games
Features, TechnologyZindagi seeks to bring a friendlier face to a video game industry focused on gunning down or blowing up fellow players.
From unemployed to self-employed: New law ignores moral hazard
Op/Eds, OpinionIf Uncle Sam would pay you to become unemployed for six months and then create a small business, wouldn’t you want to become an entrepreneur?
Salem earnings soar 195%
Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:SALM” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”08-09-2011″ enddate=”08-03-2012″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Camarillo-based Salem Communications, a conservative and Christian radio broadcaster, increased profits 195 percent to $5.6 million in 2011, the company said March 8. Salem owns or operates 95 radio stations in the U.S., more than half of which are in the nation’s top 25 radio markets. Read More →
QAD profits skyrocket
Latest newsTwo years after making deep staff cuts to combat the global manufacturing collapse, Santa Barbara-based QAD profits rebounded 300 percent to $10.7 million in fiscal 2012, the company said March 8. QAD makes software that manufacturing firms use to track materials, labor and other costs. The company counts Hewlett-Packard and other Fortune 500 firms as Read More →
