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 | Friday, May 23rd, 2014

								
Attorney General goes after Distenfield venture in N.Y.

								Law & Goverment, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
The New York State Attorney General has sent a cease and desist letter to a legal documents business run by a member of Santa Barbara’s Distenfield family, alleging the firm is illegally practicing law in the Empire State. The order is the first deep scrutiny of the newest document filing venture by a new generation Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 23rd, 2014

								
Central Coast banks on startups to drive growth

								Central Coast, Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
Cal Poly’s successful SLO Hot House program is welcoming its fourth cohort of companies, and the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet will soon open its doors.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
								Chad Newell, founder of Santa Barbara-based Snapwire, a mobile stock photography company. (Nik Blaskovich / Business Times photo)								
								
 | Friday, May 23rd, 2014

								
Snapwire connects amateur photographers and publishers

								South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
Snapwire is hoping to solve several problems that plague stock photography, chief among them the issue of freshness. I

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Monday, May 19th, 2014

								
Nonprofit aims to connect entrepreneurs

								Latest news, Nonprofits, Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy								
A new Santa Barbara-based nonprofit is hoping to connect entrepreneurs with mentors.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 16th, 2014

								
CenCal-USC dispute highlights Medi-Cal pricing issues

								Central Coast, Health Care & Life Science, Law & Goverment, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
A USC hospital is demanding $2 million for a surgery performed on a Medi-Cal patient from Santa Barbara County, more than 25 times as much as Santa Barbara County officials believe the procedure should have cost.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 16th, 2014

								
Mining new markets: HG Data funding rises to $5.5M

								Technology, Top Stories								
With a fresh round of venture capital, Santa Barbara-based business intelligence firm HG Data is hoping to track the technology in use at about 100,000 Asian companies to complement it huge database of North American firms.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 16th, 2014

								
Ceres plans to license corn-derived gene patent

								Agribusiness, East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm Ceres has been granted a patent on a gene sequence derived from corn and plans to license the patent to big seed companies.