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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, April 11th, 2014 / Features, Nonprofits, Small Business, South Coast, Top Stories / Comments Off on 20 years of honoring innovation: Business & Technology honorees announced
The South Coast Business and Technology Awards, the largest business networking and educational fundraising event in the region, will honor a green packaging company, a drought-resistant seed company and a rescue equipment maker, among others, as it celebrates its 20th year.
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By Erika Martin / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Restaurants, Small Business, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on All fired up: PizzaRev joins with Buffalo Wild Wings on expansion
A large, publicly traded restaurant chain has grabbed a slice of Westlake Village-based PizzaRev in a bid to help the Southern California startup roll out nationwide.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 28th, 2014 / Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on A soft touch for transit: CHK America builds interactive route maps for cities
The first unit is being tested at the Santa Barbara MTD Transit Center, where the company will be refining the software that runs the system to make it as useful as possible to riders.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 14th, 2014 / Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Feeling lucky? How small businesses can navigate Google’s new algorithm
With a recent change to its search algorithms, Google has made it much harder for a plumber in Arroyo Grande to show up when a user searches for “San Luis Obispo plumber,” even though that business may have served the greater San Luis Obispo area for decades.