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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, February 24th, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Small Business, Top Stories / Comments Off on In a crunch, State Fund targets small businesses
The State Compensation Insurance Fund, a government-sponsored insurer of last resort that’s hurting for business, has taken its hunt for cash into the courts, suing mom-and-pop contractors and billion-dollar companies alike in the Tri-Counties. The suits appear to be part of a crackdown on collections as the fund prepares to lay off thousands of workers Read More →
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By Dana Olsen / Friday, February 10th, 2012 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Bonbon boom: Chocolate retailers expect sweetest Feb. 14 in a decade
It’s a sweet year to be a chocolate shop in the Tri-Counties.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 27th, 2012 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on The next dimension: TrueVision inks deal with microscope maker
TrueVision Systems has inked a deal with the world’s second-biggest maker of surgical microscopes.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 13th, 2012 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Web wars: Impulse brings faster broadband to Santa Barbara
Impulse Advanced Communications is targeting mid-sized and small businesses with a new broadband offering in the Santa Barbara area.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, January 13th, 2012 / Features, Small Business / Comments Off on Hanging tight: Employee-owned firm equips search and rescue teams
Over the past two years, thriving CMC Rescue has become 100 percent employee-owned.
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By Stephen Nellis / Thursday, December 29th, 2011 / Latest news, Small Business / 1 Comment
A Newbury Park-based company is vowing to fight charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it broke telemarketing rules by helping clients make so-called “robocalls,” violate the national “Do Not Call” registry and mask caller IDs. The FTC alleges the calls generated thousands of complaints from consumers. Peter Turpel, the founder of Phone On-Hold Marketing Read More →