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UCSB to launch first professional school

By   /  Friday, November 7th, 2014  /  Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on UCSB to launch first professional school

With a curriculum that steers clear of heavy emphasis on typical MBA topics like accounting, the Master’s in Technology Management program will focus on the specific leadership and management skills needed by engineers and tech professionals.

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Practical prestige: Innovation can be pricey, but pays off

By   /  Friday, November 7th, 2014  /  Columns, Latest news, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Practical prestige: Innovation can be pricey, but pays off

If continuing research can change the amount of energy we expect our consumer electronics to consume as much as Nakamura’s LEDs have changed the way we think of light bulbs, the university will more than recover Munger’s donation money in patent licensing and added prestige.

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Hitting a home run at TechPitch

By   /  Friday, October 31st, 2014  /  Latest news, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Hitting a home run at TechPitch

Superior Solutions grabbed judges’ attention with the marketability and built-out business model for its LiftGator, a pick-up truck attachment that eases heavy lifting for which it had already raised $25,000 of its initial $55,000 seed round.

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Sientra debuts on Nasdaq

By   /  Wednesday, October 29th, 2014  /  Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Sientra debuts on Nasdaq

On a day when the Federal Reserve announced the end to its historical bond buying program, Sientra, the Santa Barbara-based medical aesthetics company, made a bit of history of its own. Sientra became the latest company in the Tri-Counties to list on a major stock exchange Oct. 29, selling 5 million shares of common stock Read More →

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Getting a grip on diabetes: Aptitude device gets fast track status for clinical trials

By   /  Friday, October 24th, 2014  /  Central Coast Health Watch, Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Getting a grip on diabetes: Aptitude device gets fast track status for clinical trials

Aptitude creates a special type of molecule called an aptamer, which it is using to develop a first-of-its-kind hand-held device that measures insulin concentrations in real-time and can diagnose pre-diabetes. The government’s interest in furthering such research is unsurprising as diabetes affects more than 9 percent of Americans.

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Citrix expands South Coast holdings with RightSignature acquisition

By   /  Monday, October 20th, 2014  /  Latest news, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Citrix expands South Coast holdings with RightSignature acquisition

Multinational software firm Citrix Systems announced today it has bought RightSignature, a Web-based signature capture and document management service based in Santa Barbara. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Air Force’s top-secret space plane lands at Vandenberg

By   /  Friday, October 17th, 2014  /  Latest news, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Air Force’s top-secret space plane lands at Vandenberg

A mysterious unmanned space craft touched down at Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning after spending 674 days in orbit.

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