The City of Santa Clarita has launched an online calendar to provide Santa Clarita business owners with up to date information on trainings, seminars, networking opportunities and special events available. The calendar is available on the City’s website at santa-clarita.com. (more…)

(From the latimes.com) Web-savvy shoppers can often save big buying online instead of at the local mall. But a chunk of the savings comes at the expense of state and local governments, in the form of sales taxes that are never paid on many Web purchases. The losses add up for cash-starved state and local governments across the country: California alone loses out on more than $1 billion a year. (more…)

How Business unfriendly has the State of California become? Here’s one more example. (From the AP) A luxury yacht builder said Tuesday that it will consolidate two underused manufacturing plants, closing one in California and adding about 350 jobs in North Carolina within five years. (more…)

(From the latimes.com) Spurred by a recovery in the economy and the state’s fledgling film tax credit program, filming on the streets of Los Angeles surged 16% in the second quarter of the year. FilmL.A. Inc., the nonprofit group that handles permits for the city and much of L.A. County, released a report Tuesday that shows across-the-board gains for on-location filming of movies, commercials and TV shows in the three months ending June 30. (more…)

(From the nytimes.com) Did Apple make a lemon? On Monday, Consumer Reports, America’s trusted source of product reviews, said it would not recommend the iPhone 4 because of a hardware flaw with its antenna that sometimes resulted in dropped calls. The independent consumer magazine also cast doubt on Apple’s recent explanation that a software bug had caused the widely reported problem. Apple did not return requests for comment. (more…)

(From the latimes.com) Wall Street is starting to talk about a worse year for car sales than analysts had anticipated, but automakers and suppliers may be better prepared to handle falling expectations than they were last year. (more…)

More than a dozen deputies from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station conducted a second hand dealer compliance assurance operation throughout Santa Clarita today. Teams of undercover deputies visited several businesses who deal in the purchasing and reselling of second hand items such as gold, jewelry, and video games. (more…)

(From the nytimes.com) Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday about 270,000 cars sold worldwide — including luxury Lexus sedans — have potentially faulty engines, the latest quality lapse to hit the automaker following massive global recalls of top-selling models. (more…)

The City of Santa Clarita is pleased to announce effective July 1, 2010, the Santa Clarita Valley Film Office will now coordinate the process of securing Sheriffs assigned to film productions working in the City of Santa Clarita. This new policy includes a more streamlined hiring process eliminating the need for productions to work through the downtown Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office.  It also reduces production costs by offering the same hourly rate the City pays for services, which means $10 or more per hour less in savings over current rates. (more…)

(From the nytimes.com) They are the muscular, leg-roomy fixtures of New York’s crowded streetscape, the automobiles that came to represent the city. The Ford Crown Victoria served as the mainstay of taxi and police fleets. Its close cousin, the Lincoln Town Car, could reliably be found idling outside Lincoln Center or waiting to whisk a Wall Street type home for the evening. (more…)

Hundreds lined up of the official grand opening of the 63^rd Goodwill Store in the Santa Clarita Valley today, Friday, June 25, 2010. The newest addition to the Goodwill retail organization is located at the corner of Pico Canyon Road and The Old Road in Stevenson Ranch. Shoppers were treated to raffle give aways and a number of free items “hidden” around the store. (more…)

The Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp. has hired an award-winning economic development director from Arizona to become the first executive director of the newly established SCVEDC. The SCVEDC Board of Directors completed its five-month, nationwide executive search when it chose Jonas Peterson, economic director of Arizona’s Mohave County, from a field of highly experienced and talented candidates, said SCVEDC Chairman Bill Kennedy. (more…)

If you’re wondering why you are hearing more about 25Score lately, it’s largely credited to the marketing and business partnering efforts of the new owners of 25Score, Ed and Marlene Bernstein.  “We love our community and I have personally been a member of the 25Score card since 1990”, explained owner Ed Bernstein, “when we had the opportunity 8 months ago to purchase 25Score, we were excited to continue the tradition of the 25Score Card program in the Santa Clarita Valley and wanted to expand the merchant base and it’s value for everyone in the community”. (more…)

(From the nytimes.com) In a major victory for Google in its battle with media companies, a federal judge in New York on Wednesday threw out Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google’s YouTube, the No. 1 Internet video-sharing site. The ruling in the closely watched case could have major implications for the scores of Internet sites, like YouTube and Facebook that are largely built with content uploaded by their users. (more…)

(From the Signal) The Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corp. would like to serve up a piece of the enterprise zone money pie to businesses outside the city limits. Corporation officials have requested Santa Clarita’s and Los Angeles County’s help in applying for a new, larger enterprise zone to replace the city’s existing one. (more…)

The City of Santa Clarita will host a FREE Enterprise Zone Breakfast Workshop on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility. This informational workshop will include a complimentary continental breakfast and provide local businesses with information on how to reduce their State income taxes.  Representatives from the City’s Economic Development Division will facilitate the program that is being sponsored by Tim DiTomaso of DiTomaso Incentive Group. (more…)

(From the AP) Big-screen televison retailer Ken Crane’s is going out of business. The company announced Friday that it will be closing all six Los Angeles-area stores in the next two months. (more…)

The City of Santa Clarita will host a FREE Enterprise Zone Breakfast Workshop on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at the Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility. This informational workshop will include a complimentary continental breakfast and provide local businesses with information on how to reduce their State income taxes.  Representatives from the City’s Economic Development Division will facilitate the program that is being sponsored by Tim DiTomaso of DiTomaso Incentive Group. (more…)