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TWIW creates CEO position to lead firm’s growth plans

By   /  Friday, September 7th, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on TWIW creates CEO position to lead firm’s growth plans

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Clipper sued for $60M amid layoffs

By   /  Thursday, September 6th, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Clipper sued for $60M amid layoffs

Carpinteria-based Clipper Windpower faces a $60 million lawsuit from a wind farm developer shortly after it laid off 174 people. First Wind Energy, a Boston-based wind farm developer with projects in New York, Hawaii and several other states, filed suit on Sept. 4 in Santa Barbara County Superior Court. Most of the complaint is sealed. Read More →

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Eagle Castle Winery files for Ch. 11 protection

By   /  Friday, August 31st, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Law, Real Estate, Top Stories, Tourism, Wine & Viticulture  /  Comments Off on Eagle Castle Winery files for Ch. 11 protection

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UCSB spinout sold to medical supply giant

By   /  Monday, August 27th, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on UCSB spinout sold to medical supply giant

Sirigen, a UC Santa Barbara biomedical technology spinout, has been acquired by New Jersey-based Becton Dickinson and Co. The company was founded in 2003 by two students and a professor to enter UCSB’s New Venture Competition. Sirigen won the competition in May 2003. The company’s technology tapped recently discovered conductive polymers to improve what are Read More →

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Stratus hits brakes on car shows amid shakeup

By   /  Friday, August 24th, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Law, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Stratus hits brakes on car shows amid shakeup

By Julian Moore on August 24, 2012 A Santa Barbara company that produces lavish luxury and collectible car shows has suspended its event schedule amid a financial shortfall and turmoil in its executive suite. Stratus Media Group, the luxury car show and fight promoter that owns the event, has sacked its CEO and given him Read More →

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Qualstar cuts jobs amid $4.1M loss

By   /  Tuesday, August 21st, 2012  /  Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Qualstar cuts jobs amid $4.1M loss

Simi Valley-based Qualstar, a maker of tape-based hard-drive backups and power supplies, has laid off 13 percent of its workforce. The company said the employees were related to unprofitable technologies that it is phasing out, and the move is expected to save the company about $480,00 a year. The announcement came days after Qualstar said Read More →

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CKE chief: Corn, Obamacare scuttled IPO

By   /  Friday, August 17th, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies  /  1 Comment

CKE Restaurants has pulled the plug on a deal that would have made it a public company again and raised as much as $213.3 million for the Carpinteria-based fast-food operator. All sides agree investors ultimately balked because of bad timing. But analysts also lay part of the blame on the heavy debt load CKE incurred Read More →

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