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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 14th, 2014 / East Ventura County, Law, Technology, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Thousand Oaks law seminars focus on big questions in biotech
Organizers promise a steady progression from relatively anodyne topics like 3-D printers and intellectual property to touchier subjects, such as genetically engineered salmon, how animals are treated in biotech research and what ethical and legal obligations biotech researchers have when they appropriate and commercialize molecules traditionally used by indigenous cultures.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 14th, 2014 / Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Feeling lucky? How small businesses can navigate Google’s new algorithm
With a recent change to its search algorithms, Google has made it much harder for a plumber in Arroyo Grande to show up when a user searches for “San Luis Obispo plumber,” even though that business may have served the greater San Luis Obispo area for decades.
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By Staff Report / Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Sonos discloses $535M in revenue
In a rare financial disclosure, Santa Barbara audio firm Sonos has disclosed that its 2013 revenue was $535 million and that total sales doubled during the past year.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, March 7th, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Quantifying success: New fund to invest in data companies
A group of Santa Barbara entrepreneurs is looking to raise as much as $50 million for an investment fund that would finance dozens of little big-data startups.
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