Horse power: Platinum Performance taps equine and human markets
Mark Herthel could have gone to veterinary school and followed his father’s distinguished career in equine medicine, but he wanted to be a businessman. So he went to school to study agriculture and food science and turned a startup equine nutrition company into a multimillion-dollar business. Buellton-based Platinum Performance sells to some of the biggest Read More →
Read More →A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy
Last week, I spoke with Fareed Zakaria, an author and editor-at-large for Time magazine as well as a CNN host. He’s put a lot of thought into the “rise of the rest” — that is, what the post-American world is going to look like.
You can trot out the statistics of your choice to show how America is fast losing its technological edge. We lag other countries in math and science scores. But Zakaria pointed out a number to me that’s much more foreboding — citations in peer-reviewed research.
Network Hardware expansion signals technology turnaround
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Read More →Area banks hiring
After posting mostly solid first-quarter earnings, banks in the region are scouting for resumes again. Three of the largest firms in the region are looking to fill more than 300 open positions among them.
Read More →Why developers are building new homes in the region again
A few homebuilders are cautiously tiptoeing off the sidelines and putting new single-family inventory on the market.
Read More →Construction heating up at giant Santa Maria greenhouse project
Windset Farms is building a gigantic hothouse in Santa Maria.
Read More →Sorkin, Zakaria up close
Andrew Ross Sorkin, M&A reporter for the New York Times, and CNN host Fareed Zakaria will speak in Santa Barbara.
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