Ventura backs out of its brief adventure in venture capital funding
The city of Ventura is near the end of its relationship with DFJ Frontier, a venture capital fund associated with Draper Fisher Jurvetson with an outpost in Santa Barbara.
REC spinout could expand SLO solar jobs
San Luis Obispo can expect to see a slight increase in solar-power industry jobs with a recent deal that split up REC Solar and sold off its residential installation business to a San Francisco firm.
Resonant’s $13.8M IPO sets stage for push into iPhones
Resonant’s planned initial public offering is small at $13.8 million, but there’s a chance that the Santa Barbara-based company’s development deal with a major supplier to Apple’s iPhone and every other mobile handset-maker could become very large, very quickly.
Cloud farming : SLO firm brings sensor technology to the fields
The Tri-Counties may or may not see many rain clouds this year, but farmers around the region will be using cloud computing to manage their irrigation with San Luis Obispo-based Hortau.
Amgen teams up with Merck on melanoma treatments
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen and pharmaceutical giant Merck are working together to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of combined treatments for melanoma patients.
ValueClick rebrands to Conversant
Online advertising firm ValueClick has changed its name to Conversant and recalibrated its business model to focus on helping marketers better target individual consumers.
