February 23, 2024

		

Stephen Nellis


| Friday, July 11th, 2014

Strawberry grower, Heritage Oaks head to trial over loan contract

Agribusiness, Banking & Finance, Central Coast, Law & Goverment, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

A Santa Maria strawberry grower’s lawsuit alleging that Heritage Oaks Bank’s failure to provide financing after promising to do so drove the grower into near-bankruptcy is headed to trial later this month.

| Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Ceres inks deal to sell plant genetics software

Agribusiness, East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories

Shares of Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm Ceres were up 8 percent in midday trading on news that the company inked a deal to monetize its genome viewing software through a deal with Bayer CropScience.

| Friday, July 4th, 2014

Apeel blooms: Startup gets $1.3M to explore flower, produce coatings

Agribusiness, Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy

Apeel Sciences has raised $1.3 million and is working on a new product for flower growers to complement its existing efforts to prevent fruit and produce losses to pests and spoilage.

| Friday, July 4th, 2014

GoTek revs up global plans as it secures rotary engine patent

Columns, Technology

GoTek’s detailed patent drawings make clear once and for all that its engine is definitively not a Wankel, or anything close to it.

| Friday, July 4th, 2014

AppScale refines cloud technology, signs major clients

South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

A year after commercializing its code, Santa Barbara-based AppScale Systems has released a major update to its cloud-hopping technology and is signing up partners and customers such as IBM and Chico’s.

| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

NASA chief tours Goleta space firm

South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

  A Goleta company with a new design for spacecraft solar arrays got a chance to show off its technology to the head of NASA on July 1. Deployable Space Systems, or DSS, is working on a flexible solar blanket that can be rolled up like a sleeping bag. The design saves precious space and Read More →

| Friday, June 27th, 2014

Opposition could gum up energy projects

Central Coast, Real Estate, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

A trio of Central Coast oil projects are winding through the regulatory process in the face of increasingly stiff regional and statewide opposition.