Strawberry grower, Heritage Oaks head to trial over loan contract
A Santa Maria strawberry grower’s lawsuit alleging that Heritage Oaks Bank’s failure to provide financing after promising to do so drove the grower into near-bankruptcy is headed to trial later this month.
Read More →Apeel blooms: Startup gets $1.3M to explore flower, produce coatings
Apeel Sciences has raised $1.3 million and is working on a new product for flower growers to complement its existing efforts to prevent fruit and produce losses to pests and spoilage.
Read More →GoTek revs up global plans as it secures rotary engine patent
GoTek’s detailed patent drawings make clear once and for all that its engine is definitively not a Wankel, or anything close to it.
Read More →AppScale refines cloud technology, signs major clients
A year after commercializing its code, Santa Barbara-based AppScale Systems has released a major update to its cloud-hopping technology and is signing up partners and customers such as IBM and Chico’s.
Read More →NASA chief tours Goleta space firm
A Goleta company with a new design for spacecraft solar arrays got a chance to show off its technology to the head of NASA on July 1. Deployable Space Systems, or DSS, is working on a flexible solar blanket that can be rolled up like a sleeping bag. The design saves precious space and Read More →
Read More →Opposition could gum up energy projects
A trio of Central Coast oil projects are winding through the regulatory process in the face of increasingly stiff regional and statewide opposition.
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