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By Stephen Nellis / Thursday, September 18th, 2014 / Latest news, South Coast, Technology / Comments Off on Startup leaders talk shift
There’s only one thing you can be sure about in business: shift happens. Whether it’s customers coming and going or a competitor rolling out a new product, every business faces change. By their very nature, technology companies face the constant of change more than most, and the ones that succeed are the ones that embrace Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Thursday, September 18th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology / Comments Off on Farm drones, cricket flour pitched at clean investment summit
The sixth annual Clean Business Investment Summit held at UC Santa Barbara was a success, drawing more than 200 attendees and 30 investor groups. The attendees and investors head from a range of speakers and saw presentations from 17 startup teams and two student teams. Over the years, more than 575 startups and growth companies Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, September 12th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Google, Microsoft vie for UCSB top minds with quantum initiatives
Google has selected a UC Santa Barbara lab for a new quantum-computing initiative just a short distance from where Microsoft has an established outpost, setting up a battle among tech giants on the South Coast. On Sept. 2, Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab said that it was launching a new hardware push to design and Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, September 12th, 2014 / Law, Technology / Comments Off on Transphorm powers up portfolio with GaN patents
Goleta-based Transphorm, an energy-efficiency company spun out of UC Santa Barbara, said it has been granted two patents that it believes could cover as much as 60 percent of its target market in power-conversion electronics.
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By Stephen Nellis / Thursday, September 11th, 2014 / Latest news, Technology, Top Stories / 1 Comment
In what could be the region’s biggest-ever day for tech deals, Westlake Village-based Conversant said it will be sold to Dallas-based Alliance Data Systems in a deal valued at $2.3 billion, and Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems said it will be bought by HP.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, September 5th, 2014 / Central Coast, Columns, East Ventura County, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy, West Ventura County / Comments Off on Governments, businesses band together on better broadband
The Broadband Consortium Pacific Coast has been launched to bring the region’s Internet up to speed. The effort is a collaboration between public- and private-sector officials in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties and has received an initial $300,000 in grant funding for its first two years from the California Public Utilities Commission.
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