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Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam

By   /  Monday, June 21st, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Broadband stimulus cash lands at Occam

In one of the biggest stimulus grants to filter down to a tri-county business, Goleta-based Occam Networks will supply equipment for a $101 million project to bring broadband access to rural Western Kansas. Occam will provide networking equipment to Kansas-based Rural Telephone’s Nex-Tech, which will connect 23,000 households and businesses across 4,600 square miles. “In Read More →

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Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow

By   /  Monday, June 21st, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Cal Poly set to launch MBA program; CSUCI to follow

Sharpen your pencils and get out your notebooks, Santa Barbara. Two different MBA programs aimed at working professionals will launch in the city over the next two years. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and CSU Channel Islands are both setting up part-time MBA programs in Santa Barbara, with Cal Poly’s launching first and CSUCI planning Read More →

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Making the grade: Conejo Valley attracts top corporate talent

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Over the past two decades, the Conejo Valley has emerged from a collection of sleepy farm towns to a home for major companies. Good schools and proximity to Los Angeles have a lot to do with the attractiveness of the area to companies such as Dole Food Co., Teledyne Technologies, Amgen and J.D. Power & Read More →

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Cambria hotel in Chapter 11

By   /  Monday, June 14th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Cambria hotel in Chapter 11

A new luxury hotel in the seaside town of Cambria has found just how tough it can be to get off the ground. The development company for the new El Colibri hotel and spa has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $9.5 million in liabilities, and has put the hotel up for sale seven months Read More →

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GoToProfit: Citrix Online expands in Goleta

By   /  Monday, June 14th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on GoToProfit: Citrix Online expands in Goleta

Citrix Online was one of the brightest tri-county success stories of the 2000s. More than a decade later, it shows no sign of slowing down, marking double-digit profit growth during the worst recession in decades by helping other businesses save on travel, meeting and training costs. Founded in the late 1990s, Citrix Online began life Read More →

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Lokey to guide Mission Community Bancorp's growth plan

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With a tri-county banking veteran as its new CEO and a $25 million infusion of capital from a private equity firm, San Luis Obispo-based Mission Community Bancorp is poised to make some big moves in the coming months. Mission Community Bancorp is a publicly traded banking firm and the holding company for Mission Community Bank, Read More →

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Tri-county tourism on the rebound

By   /  Monday, June 7th, 2010  /  Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Tri-county tourism on the rebound

Economists can argue all day about the precise end of this recession, but in the travel and tourism sector, the tri-county region’s biggest private industry, the numbers point very clearly to the spring of 2010. Even for hoteliers who remember the post-Sept. 11 slump, 2009 was one of the most relentlessly horrible years in memory. Read More →

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