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By David Colker
Could this be the year for hand-held television?
By Kathy M. Kristof
If you're rich, the best estate planning advice would be to die quickly. If you're not, the best advice is to either review or rewrite your estate...
By Morris Newman
It's a cold winter for apartment investors in Los Angeles County: Rents are down, prices have fallen and vacancies are way up.
By Andrea Chang
The gig: The celebrity chef, who is considered a pioneer of California cuisine, manages a vast culinary empire that includes upscale and casual...
By Lew Sichelman
There are dozens of ways to make your housing investment pay off faster and at a greater return. In some cases, a small extra outlay may be required,...
By Liz Pulliam Weston
Dear Liz: My son recently learned that he likely will lose his job April 1. He is a fireman and there is a chance the layoff might be...
Re: “Letters to the editor: Planes should fit fat...
By Morris Newman
Though potentially profitable, apartment investing is full of hazard.
By Frank Nelson
A gracious old Montecito home, familiar to viewers who regularly watched the opening credits of the late '60s television comedy series "The Ghost &...
1906 treasure
Location: 60 Olive Mill Road, Montecito 93108
A Chinese official says China has had no direct contact with Google over the company's threat in January to shut down its China-based search service.
Newly built in Cheviot Hills
By Tom Petruno
California and its local governments have long counted on a large captive audience for their debt: Many of the buyers are high-income individual...
By W.J. Hennigan
A new rocket 18 stories tall and waiting to be launched from a pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., could determine the fate of a private aerospace venture in...
By Hugo Martín
The federal government has made clear its strategy for cracking down on potential terrorist attacks in airplanes: more sophisticated scanners and...
By Alana Semuels and Don Lee
Encouraging reports on both national and state employment released Friday indicate that the long-awaited economic recovery may be gaining a bit of...
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Angie Myung's and Ted Vadakan's dreams of having careers in the arts hit them right in the wallet. In a good way.
By Louis Sahagun
Southern California Edison wants to sell its antiquated water and gas utility on the eastern edge of this quaint harbor community.
By Jim Puzzanghera and Jerry Hirsch
With Toyota Motor Corp. executives continuing to say that electronics problems are not causing sudden acceleration in their company's vehicles, two...
By Jerry Hirsch and Tiffany Hsu
In a move that could provide economic relief for hundreds of communities nationwide, General Motors Co. said it would reinstate nearly 700 dealerships...
Stocks jumped Friday after the government's employment report showed fewer jobs were cut in February than expected.
By Hugo Martín and P.J. Huffstutter
Because of frigid temperatures in Florida, you might have to enjoy a BLT without the T.
By Jessica Guynn
Will the much-anticipated iPad be Apple Inc.'s next must-have product?
BUSINESS BRIEFING -- Consumer borrowing broke a record stretch of declines with a small increase in January.
By Mark Milian
Google Inc. gobbled up yet another start-up Friday with the acquisition of DocVerse, which makes a group editing tool for Microsoft Office. The 3-...
By David Sarno
Microsoft Corp. said this week that its new line of smart phones slated for launch in 2010 won't run programs from older Windows-based devices.
By Jessica Guynn
Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, poking fun at people who bare minute details of their lives online, rattled off some of the more "riveting"...
By Dan Fost reporting from san francisco
It looked as if the economy had dealt a powerful blow to L.J. Mottel, a 35-year-old father of two, when his employer, the Fontainebleau hotel and...
By Hugo Martín
Theme parks are being flooded with applications from job seekers, as unemployed mortgage agents, sales clerks and construction workers who can't...
By David Lazarus
Yves Didier has been a strong believer in earthquake insurance since the 1994 Northridge quake, when his apartment building was severely damaged and...