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UC Santa Barbara Sues Walmart, Target, Amazon Over Filament LED Patent

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In a major, patent lawsuit, the University of California, Santa Barbara has sued the five biggest retailers of filament "Edison-style" LED lighting, saying all of those bulbs violate patents held by UC Santa Barbara. UC Santa Barbara says it is being represented by Nixon Peabody LLP. READ MORE>>.

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Success, Santa Barbara Style: Patagonian Sexwax With A Side Order of UGGS

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Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5 In 1995, Deckers purchased the UGGS brand for $16 million.

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Urban Airship Taps SoCal Tech Vets For Key Roles

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Urban Airship , a startup which develops mobile analytics and engagement software, said today that it has named two executives--both of whom have had prominent roles at Santa Barbara area technology companies. The company--based in Portland--said it named Scott Allen as its CFO, and Eric Holmen as its SVP of Worldwide Sales.

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Rincon Venture Partners Sees Exit At Rentlytics

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Santa Barbara-based Rincon Venture Partners , the venture fund which was led by Jim Andelman before Bonfire Ventures, has seen an exit of its portfolio, at San Francisco-based Rentlytics. Rentlytics has been acquired for $57M in cash by RealPage , a Texas software developer for the multi-family real estate industry. READ MORE>>.

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Anchore, Founded by Ansible, Eucalpytus Vet, Raises $2.5M

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Santa Barbara-based container software technology developer Anchore , which was founded by veterans of Ansible, has raised $2.5M Eucalpytus was acquired by HP in September of 2014. in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Menlo Ventures and e-ventures. READ MORE>>.

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WeDo Gets $1M For To Do List App

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Santa Barbara-based WeDo , a new startup developing social, to-do list apps, has raised $1M in a funding from angel investors, the company said this morning. Mobrem is a serial entrepreneur, who was the founder of Lettuce, which he sold to Intuit in 2014; Shulem is a 21-year old Mac software developer. READ MORE>>.

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FLIR Systems Expands In Goleta

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FLIR specifically said it is looking to tap into the talent coming from the University of California Santa Barbara in the expannsion. The building are currently being leased to Dupont, Northrop, Raytheon, General Electric, Safe Labs and Sientra, with leases due to expire in 2014. FLIR is based in Portland.