Torrey Pines Bank Reports Strong Third Quarter

“Conservative” lender avoided sub-prime loans
By Eilene Zimmerman
Posted on Mon, Nov 23rd, 2009
Last updated Fri, Nov 20th, 2009

John Maguire, President & CEO, Torrey Pines Bank

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Torrey Pines Bank reported strong growth in the third quarter of this year, with increases in deposits, an increase in net income and substantial capacity to fund new business loans and lines of credit. The Bank is a leading local commercial bank with offices throughout the county, and is a subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporaton.

Click here to read the full story on SanDiego.com.

Client Experience Project and its new Twitter social cause program – TwitCause – was profiled in one of the most influential tech blogs

Ice Cream Maker Paying For Your Tweets To Save Honeybees

By MG Siegler

Back in August, we covered the launch of TwitCause, a service not unlike Causes on Facebook, only built on top of Twitter. Basically, they find a cause to support (partially based on community feedback) and use Twitter to drive awareness for it. They also ask that you donate some money if you find the cause worthy. But today brings a new little twist: A sponsor willing to pay for any Twitter user who tweet out their support for a cause. Ice cream maker Häagen-Dazs has stepped up to do this to try and save honeybees.

Perhaps you’ve heard the stories over the past several years about honeybees mysteriously vanishing around the world in large numbers. The root cause is believed to be something called Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes bees to stray from their hives and die. This is bad news since honeybees are vital to pollinating a lot of different types of foods we eat. They’re also vital to making ice cream, which is why Häagen-Dazs is supporting this TwitCause.

Starting today and running through November 11, Häagen-Dazs will pay $1 for the first 500 people that tweet everyday with the hashtag #HelpHoneyBees. The money will go towards both a UC Davis research project to further look into Colony Collapse Disorder, as well as help fund the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, which aims to teach people about how to create their own honeybee farms.

Zenzi CEO Sarah Hardwick explains how to get more ROI for your PR and marketing campaign on San Diego Living’s Biz Buzz show with intelligence activist AmyK Inc.  Watch and learn the six essentials for success in the new media environment.

Artist, seamstress, performance artist, and activist Rachel Znerold appears to have to her hands on a lot of different things.

She applies multiple layers of mixed media to build wonderfully tactile and colorful visual works. She resembles deconstructed and vintage materials to create hand-sewn fashion pieces. And she is a founding member of fAction SF, a collective of women designers and artists who use fashion and performance art as the medium for creating social change.

We recently caught up with this busy-bee with our Back Talk questions. Check out her answers here.

NitroSecurity grabs a great hit in The Tech Herald!

Adobe Squashes 29 Vulnerabilities with Single Update

On Tuesday, Adobe pushed almost as many vulnerability fixes as Microsoft, smashing 29 bugs with a single release. The issues fixed will depend on the software version, but between Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, there were plenty of flaws to go around.

The patches released by Adobe correct vulnerabilities on UNIX, Macintosh, and Windows platforms. Most of the vulnerabilities addressed in this quarterly update center on code execution flaws, thirteen of them to be exact, where malicious PDF files were used to distribute Malware or simply hijack a targeted system.

Willie Nelson’s Got a New Broadband Plan

Willie Nelson has tossed the satellite dish off the back of his corn-powered tour bus in favor of a little box that fuses wireless data cards from a variety of networks into a single connection.

Which is to say Willie is on the net again, seeing things he may never see again.

Satellite connections can be made anywhere, but they are expensive and have strict usage caps. Network data cards offer all-you-can eat broadband plans, but any given company’s — AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint — doesn’t work everywhere. The solution? Use an array of network data cards from several companies. What Nelson has done is to tie four wireless USB cards into a Mushroom Networks PortaBella 141, which makes them into a single, fast and robust connection that can power a roving or remote network.

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Long-time Zenzi client Trust Administration Services was featured in Consumer Reports, Bankrate.com and MSN recently.  CEO Jim Wagner highlighted his expertise on recharacterizations of IRAs and how investors could stand to save big on taxes, as well as important tips in considering this move.

Zenzi client, Platformic, is recognized in the current issue of Infonomics Magazine in helping Comcast SportsNet Philly to bring professional sports to the Web. Editor Bryant Duhon profiles Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia’s site, which was rolled out in October 2008 and built on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform from Platformic (www.platformic.com), greatly streamlining the design and posting process.

Zenzi CEO and Founder, Sarah Hardwick teams up with business strategist AmyK of AmyK Inc. to dish on innovative and essential PR tactics to be successful in today’s fast paced economy. Check out the interview featured this morning on San Diego Living.