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Pacaso Expands To Santa Barbara

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San Francisco-based real estate startup Pacaso, which was founded by former Zillow executives Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff, said this week that it is expanding its platform to Santa Barbara. The startup helps people co-own and buy luxury second homes. Rascoff is based in Los Angeles.

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Amazon Eyes Alexa Team Hiring In Santa Barbara

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Amazon is in a major expansion in Santa Barbara, with plans to hire as many as 300 people in a new, three story downtown location, all working as part of the Amazon Alexa team.

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Surf Air Expands To Santa Barbara

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In what could help Santa Barbara further increase its influence in the high tech world, Surf Air , the subscription-membership based, all-you-can-fly airline headed by Wade Eyerly, said today that it has added Santa Barbara to its daily schedule. Surf Air launched its service between Burbank and San Francisco in June.

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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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Santa Barbara Investors Back Solvvy

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The Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB) is one of the backers this week in machine learning and artificial intelligence software developer Solvvy. Solvvy says it has raised $4.5M Solvvy says it has raised $4.5M Solvvy is based in Palo Alto. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara, San Diego Tops On Per-Capita Venture Capital

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A new study released earlier this month has ranked the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta metropolitan area, as well as the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area among the top ten markets for venture capital activity. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ranked further down on the list, at number 16, at $13.1M

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Santa Barbara Takes Hard Line On Lime Scooters

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The City of Santa Barbara has taken a hard line on the first, on-demand scooter rental service to hit the city-- Lime --and has impounded every single scooter placed in the city on Friday by Lime. Santa Barbara is not the first city where those scooter rental companies have faced backlash from local cities.