
‘Like Pandora for fashion’ wins at Startup Weekend SLO
Cal Poly hosted its first-ever Startup Weekend SLO recently.
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Tourism turnaround: Hospitality pads Paso Robles’ city coffers

For Paso Robles, tourism is fast becoming a big moneymaker.
Read More →Ceres delays its IPO, slashes price
Thousand Oaks-based energy crop maker Ceres has drastically lowered expectations for its initial public offering and delayed it for a week, according to regulatory filings and investment banking sources. The company was set to raise as much as $132 million on the Nasdaq when shares hit the markets under the name CERE on Feb. 9. Read More →
Read More →Editorial: Region’s recovery puts private-sector jobs first
Jobs have become the No. 1 issue for economic recovery, and it would be hard to fault the region’s businesses for not doing their share.
Read More →Ventura County created 4,603 private-sector jobs in 2011
After an unexpectedly slow recovery in 2011, economists are pinning their hopes on 2012. That was the word from Bill Watkins and Mark Schniepp, two tri-county-based economists who gave separate outlooks for the U.S. and Ventura County economies at a Feb. 3 event at California Lutheran University. “2011 really didn’t shape out to be the Read More →
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