Amgen profits soar, ups guidance
UncategorizedAmgen shares soared in after-hours trading Monday as the Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant reported sharply higher-second quarter profits and raised earnings guidance for the full year. Amgen said it earned $1.29 per share on revenue of $3.7 billion, sharply higher than analyst estimates of $1.15 per share and revenue slightly below $3.6 billion. Amgen said Read More →
Power-One cuts 300 jobs
UncategorizedCamarillo-based power supply maker Power-One slashed 300 more jobs July 24 as its losses steepened sharply in the second quarter. The net loss felt by common shareholders spiked to $6.8 million from a loss of $3.9 million in the second quarter last year, the company said in an earnings announcement. Net sales also tumbled 39 Read More →
Fire burns near Ojai
UncategorizedFirefighters in Ventura County had a blaze off Highway 33 near Ojai 75 percent contained late in the evening July 21, according to the Ventura County Star. The fire started that afternoon and scorched more than 30 acres by 7 p.m. It was burning in a rugged, hard-to-reach area with several oil fields nearby. Read More →
Union wants boycott
UncategorizedA union representing technical employees at television station KSBY, a San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria NBC affiliate, is demanding advertisers boycott the local station for the remainder of a labor dispute. The union is currently in a labor contract dispute with the station’s South Carolina-based owners. The boycott asks that advertisers support the Read More →
Kaai raises another $3.5M
UncategorizedGoleta-based Kaai has raised a $3.5 million series B round of financing from a group of investors that includes clean-tech investment firm Khosla Ventures, according to regulatory filings. The secretive start-up is working on an LED lighting technology developed by Steven DenBaars and Shuji Nakamura, two researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nakamura Read More →
In honor of a business news leader
OpinionWe’ll take a few words to honor Ray Shaw, a journalist and entrepreneur who died suddenly this month at age 75. Beginning in the late 1980s, Shaw led Charlotte, N.C.-based American City Business Journals, the nation’s foremost owner of weekly financial news publications. As a former Wall Street Journal reporter, Shaw rose through the ranks Read More →
Perils and promise for an ugly budget deal
OpinionAs this newspaper was going to press, the California budget was little more than a thumbnail sketch produced for the media and the credit markets. Nonetheless, the compromise had the required impact — headlines for the press and a dramatic decline in the interest rate on Golden State bonds. Although the heavy lifting on the Read More →
