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By Staff Report / Monday, February 10th, 2014 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Solar pioneer Bill Yerkes dies
John W. “Bill” Yerkes, a Stanford-trained engineer who for decades championed the cause of solar cells for commercial use and was known as the “father of the solar industry,” has died in Santa Barbara.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, February 7th, 2014 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on Ventura backs out of its brief adventure in venture capital funding
The city of Ventura is near the end of its relationship with DFJ Frontier, a venture capital fund associated with Draper Fisher Jurvetson with an outpost in Santa Barbara.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, February 7th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Resonant’s $13.8M IPO sets stage for push into iPhones
Resonant’s planned initial public offering is small at $13.8 million, but there’s a chance that the Santa Barbara-based company’s development deal with a major supplier to Apple’s iPhone and every other mobile handset-maker could become very large, very quickly.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, February 7th, 2014 / Agribusiness, Small Business, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Cloud farming : SLO firm brings sensor technology to the fields
The Tri-Counties may or may not see many rain clouds this year, but farmers around the region will be using cloud computing to manage their irrigation with San Luis Obispo-based Hortau.
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