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 | Friday, May 16th, 2014

								
Central Coast hopes to be wave energy hub

								Central Coast, Green Coast, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
With five projects in the works that could generate as much a 1.2 gigawatts of electricity, the Central Coast could become the nation’s wave-energy capital.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 9th, 2014

								
Santa Maria Energy drills down on search for private equity

								Banking & Finance, Central Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies								
Santa Maria Energy is on the hunt for private equity funding for its $120.7 million capital budget after a going-public deal fell apart.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 9th, 2014

								
Vapor Hub hopes to lead the way in $3B e-cigarette market

								East Ventura County, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies								
With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration promising to impose regulations on the free-for-all e-cigarette market, Simi Valley-based Vapor Hub International is hoping to help the industry grow up.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 9th, 2014

								
Counting crops: Linkfresh makes planning software for food firms

								Agribusiness, Technology, Top Stories								
A Ventura company is bringing the same kind of sophisticated software that global manufacturers use to run their businesses to the fresh food industry.

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 9th, 2014

								
Court certifies class-action suit over Santa Barbara insurance scam

								Law & Goverment, South Coast, Tri-County Economy								
A class-action lawsuit over whether a Santa Barbara insurance agent’s employers knew about the “churning” scam he was running and let it continue because it boosted profits is headed to trial after its class certification was upheld at the California Supreme Court in March. 

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Tuesday, May 6th, 2014

								
HG Data funding rises to $5.5M

								Technology, Top Stories								
Santa Barbara-based HG Data has raised $2 million in venture capital, bringing its total raised to date to $5.5 million. HG Data uses a proprietary algorithm to sift through massive amounts of messy online data to create a database of which software and hardware products are in use at about 1 million U.S companies. Fortune Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Friday, May 2nd, 2014

								
Santa Maria Energy shelves $79M going-public deal

								Central Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy								
A $79 million merger that would have taken Santa Maria Energy public has been called off after its financiers couldn’t gather the votes to pass it.