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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 19th, 2011 / Features, Restaurants, Small Business / Comments Off on Banking on oysters: Ventura hosts entrepreneur’s shellfish venture
Mark Reynolds has chosen to live in what he calls the “vast expanse of nothing” of Mexico’s Baja California growing oysters and clams organically and sustainably.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 12th, 2011 / Features / Comments Off on Building better transit: Designworks USA lands BART contract
A Thousand Oaks-based firm has won the job of designing commuter train cars for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 12th, 2011 / Real Estate, Top Stories / Comments Off on Ventura County runoff rules on horizon
New stormwater regulations for Ventura County are scheduled to take effect this fall, marking the final test of whether rules that building advocates call the strictest in Southern California will grind to a halt commercial and industrial development.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 12th, 2011 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Court orders China to face lawsuit claims
A federal judge has said that Chinese firms being sued by a Santa Barbara software company cannot escape court proceedings in the United States after allegedly stealing the California company’s code.
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By Stephen Nellis / Thursday, August 11th, 2011 / Latest news / 2 Comments
The publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press committed multiple unfair labor practices and will be required to offer eight fired journalists who took part in union organizing their jobs back, the National Labor Relations Board found in a decision issued Aug. 11.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 5th, 2011 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on Read this column on paper or in pixels
For the first time since the founding of the Business Times in 2000, this technology column — along with the rest of the paper’s weekly news reports — will be available in its entirety on the Internet.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 5th, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Mindbody stretches out: SLO tech firm gets $9M, ramps up hiring
San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody has raised $9 million in capital from its current investors just short of a year after it raised $12 million.
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