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Solar pioneer Bill Yerkes dies

By   /  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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Ventura backs out of its brief adventure in venture capital funding

By   /  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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REC spinout could expand SLO solar jobs

By   /  Friday, February 7th, 2014  /  Central Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on REC spinout could expand SLO solar jobs

San Luis Obispo can expect to see a slight increase in solar-power industry jobs with a recent deal that split up REC Solar and sold off its residential installation business to a San Francisco firm.

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Resonant’s $13.8M IPO sets stage for push into iPhones

By   /  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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Cloud farming : SLO firm brings sensor technology to the fields

By   /  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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Amgen teams up with Merck on melanoma treatments

By   /  Thursday, February 6th, 2014  /  Central Coast Health Watch, East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on Amgen teams up with Merck on melanoma treatments

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen and pharmaceutical giant Merck are working together to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of combined treatments for melanoma patients.

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ValueClick rebrands to Conversant

By   /  Thursday, February 6th, 2014  /  Banking & Finance, East Ventura County, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on ValueClick rebrands to Conversant

Online advertising firm ValueClick has changed its name to Conversant and recalibrated its business model to focus on helping marketers better target individual consumers.

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