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Amazon’s Santa Barbara office sold in one of downtown’s biggest commercial deals ever

By   /  Thursday, December 10th, 2020  /  Latest news, Real Estate, right, South Coast, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Amazon’s Santa Barbara office sold in one of downtown’s biggest commercial deals ever

Amazon’s downtown Santa Barbara building got a new landlord when the property was sold in early December to an international investor. Global Mutual, a London-based investment firm, bought the three-story building for close to its listed price of $38.4 million, making it one of the largest sales ever of commercial property in the downtown Santa Read More →

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Our view: Public has right to know where its money goes

By   /  Tuesday, October 20th, 2020  /  Opinion  /  Comments Off on Our view: Public has right to know where its money goes

We’ll admit to feeling a bit conflicted about the dispute between the county of Ventura and the Ventura County Community Foundation over the disclosure of the names of 777 recipients of $5,000 emergency grants and another 3,000 moving through the approval process. The grants are publicly funded and the foundation, which processed and awarded the Read More →

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Amazon coming to Oxnard next year

By   /  Friday, October 9th, 2020  /  left, Real Estate, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County  /  Comments Off on Amazon coming to Oxnard next year

Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center at the Sakioka Farms Business Park in Oxnard, bringing more than 1,500 jobs with benefits when the facility opens next year. “This couldn’t have come at a better time, given the pandemic and the economic downturn,” City Councilwoman Carmen Ramirez said in a city news release. “The opportunity Read More →

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Direct Relief benefits from settlement over overpriced, counterfeit masks

By   /  Friday, August 28th, 2020  /  Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Law & Goverment, Nonprofits  /  Comments Off on Direct Relief benefits from settlement over overpriced, counterfeit masks

Amazon and 3M teamed up to fight back against sellers who price-gouge essential personal protective equipment supplies, and they’re donated the results of that lawsuit to Direct Relief, the Santa Barbara-based nonprofit. 3M filed the lawsuit June 8, asserting that third-party sellers used Amazon to defraud customers by misrepresenting the condition of fake respirators, as Read More →

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Torres: Beat racism with diverse workforce

By   /  Friday, June 19th, 2020  /  Latest news, Op/Eds  /  Comments Off on Torres: Beat racism with diverse workforce

By Jesus Torres In this new era of addressing systemic racism, Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri have become “woke.” Go ahead and ask them if black lives matter. The callous murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has forced us to confront our shameful legacy of racism and oppression. While past Read More →

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Well Health speeds up release of its text message platform

By   /  Friday, June 5th, 2020  /  Health Care & Life Science, right, South Coast, Technology  /  Comments Off on Well Health speeds up release of its text message platform

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the demands on health care technology, so Santa Barbara-based Well Health accelerated its own. Partnering with health care systems and business partners like Amazon and Twilio, the company rolled out a rapid release program for its text message communication platform, adding thousands of doctors and millions of patients, and taking its Read More →

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The Village at Moorpark retail center sells for $20 million

By   /  Friday, March 6th, 2020  /  Columns, Latest news, Real Estate, South Coast, West Ventura County  /  Comments Off on The Village at Moorpark retail center sells for $20 million

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