The University of California, Santa Barbara and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Tokyo have just announced that Mitsubishi Chemical will invest $6M in the school, as part of an extension of a materials research and education alliance. Tags: mitsubishi chemical materials ucsb santa barbara grant research MORE >>

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M MORE >>

FLIR specifically said it is looking to tap into the talent coming from the University of California Santa Barbara in the expannsion. FLIR said the new building can accomodate up to 510 workers, but the firm did not say how many new employees it intends to hire in the Santa Barbara region. FLIR is based in Portland. MORE >>

for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M Tags: southern california angeles venture capital diego santa barbara startup investment finance A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 MORE >>

The firm--which was for years one of Santa Barbara's most prominent technology firms--moved its headquarters to the Bay Area nearly a year ago, and recently went private, delisting from the NASDAQ. Fuze Box said it is now focused on online meetings and mobile collaboration; the firm said it still has offices in Santa Barbara. MORE >>