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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Technology / Comments Off on Top 10 Hardware/Device Growth Companies in the Tri-Counties
We rank the region’s hardware and device firms based on growth capital raised so far.
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By Staff Report / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Raytheon wins $70M radar jammer contract
Raytheon said Dec. 30 that it won a $70 million contract to produce radar jammers at one of its Goleta facilities to support foreign military sales to Morocco, Egypt and Iraq.
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Columns, Real Estate, Technology / Comments Off on Sonos snags 100K square feet in Santa Barbara’s downtown
The company signed leases collectively valued at more than $21 million in 2013, according to Hayes Commercial Group, and is now downtown Santa Barbara’s largest private-sector tenant.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Making it click: Shopatron CEO taps into 25 years in business with book
For Ed Stevens, the CEO of San Luis Obispo-based Shopatron, the path to changing how the world shops started in Russia just after the end of the Cold War.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on IPOs may be the name of the game for tri-county tech in 2014
When I’m out at networking events, I often get asked, “How’s tech doing in the region?” And over the past year or so, my answer has been, “We’ll know the answer in 2014 and 2015.”
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By Staff Report / Monday, December 30th, 2013 / Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Ventura County won’t host drone tests
Ventura County’s hopes to be designated a Federal Aviation Administration test site for drones were dealt a setback on Dec. 30 when the FAA picked six winners in the first round of a nationwide competition.
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By Staff Report / Friday, December 27th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on CalAmp shares slide as Q4 outlook misses
Shares of Oxnard-based CalAmp plunged 9 percent on Christmas Eve, after the company delivered a fourth-quarter outlook that missed analyst expectations. The wireless products company said it expects fourth-quarter profits of between 19 and 23 cents per share, lower than the 24 cents per share analysts were expecting, on average, according to FactSet.