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Third-party IT options for small business
When it comes to financial planning, Cesar Lopez knows his stuff. He can write up an annuity, help with investment and tax strategies and give advice on insurance needs. Just don’t ask him to fix his own computer.

Batteries Not Included
The grand design of Rocklin's Parallax Inc.
It’s a case of David versus Goliath. A tiny, privately held Rocklin company is taking on multimillion-dollar competitors with a lightning-fast technology that’s more sophisticated than the competition’s.

Eye On the Prize
Acuity with Bill Mueller
Bill Mueller, 47, is CEO and managing partner at Valley Vision. One of four partners in the regional Next Economy initiative, Valley Vision serves as the project manager of the Capital Region’s latest economic development effort.

Head-Turning Technology
Advanced treatment promises better outcomes for prostate cancer
Rollie Swingle didn’t have treatment options for his stage IV prostate cancer.
Think Inside the Box
Whether it's clothing or computers, it usually comes in a box
Tom Kandris makes boxes. And his company, PackageOne Inc., better known as American River Packaging, can also fill them.

Web of Possibilities
A UOP scientist on the verge of a breakthrough
The black widows caged in professor Craig Vierra’s laboratory evoke the macabre. But here, in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stockton’s University of the Pacific, these crawlers are the story’s heroines.

Growth Strategy: Make More Widgets
How manufacturing could bolster the region...eventually
As Sacramento attempts to forge a regional economic development strategy, manufacturing is being touted as a potential breadwinner, but rebuilding the industry piecemeal could take time.
A Bright Future
Local tech companies are changing the trajectory of energy consumption
In response to global warming, foreign oil reliance and overstressing the nation’s current energy system, policy makers and citizens are backing efforts to produce more safe, clean, renewable energy. But with numerous limitations, implementing green energy has been difficult.

Golden State
A Folsom company thrives on SoCal sun
It didn’t take German immigrant Martin Hermann long to see California as the land of sunshine. And within that bounteous golden glow, he imagined opportunity.

Risky Business
How employees are opening doors to hackers
At first glance, the email appeared innocuous enough. All employees were being asked to change their passwords. Just click the link.