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| Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

Industrial segments fuel record Q1 profits at Teledyne

Banking & Finance, East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Despite widespread defense cuts, industrial business drove record first-quarter sales and profits at Teledyne Technologies, prompting the Thousand Oaks-based industrial conglomerate to raise its full-year outlook.

| Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014

Amgen shares slide on lackluster Q1 profits

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

Shares of Amgen fell nearly 3 percent in late trading on Tuesday following a weaker-than-expected first quarter earnings report from the world’s biggest biotech company.

| Monday, April 14th, 2014

SBAM parent to sell to TIAA-CREF

Banking & Finance, Top Stories

New York-based TIAA-CREF is buying Nuveen Investments, the debt-saddled parent company of Santa Barbara Asset Management, for $6.3 billion.

| Thursday, April 10th, 2014

Cal Poly names new business dean

Central Coast, Tri-County Economy

Scott Dawson, dean of the School of Business and Administration at Portland State University, has been named the new dean of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Orfalea College of Business. He will begin his post on Aug. 1. At Portland State, Dawson previously served as interim dean for the School of Business and Administration and Read More →

| Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

Clean Diesel raises $6.9M in stock offering

Banking & Finance, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies, West Ventura County

Clean Diesel Technologies has raised $6.9 million in a sale of common stock and warrants. The Ventura-based auto emissions technology firm said it sold about 2 million shares and warrants in a direct offering. The proceeds will be used for “general corporate purposes.”

| Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

Sebelius speaks frankly about women in leadership at Fielding talk

Health Care & Life Science, Top Stories, Women Inc.

  [EDITOR’S NOTE: Kathleen Sebelius resigned on April 10, the New York Times and other national media outlets reported.] On a day when President Barack Obama signed an executive order mandating equal pay for women working for federal contractors, Fielding Graduate University hosted Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for a more down-to-earth discussion Read More →

| Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

Invoca garners Salesforce.com investment, rolls out new technology

South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

Santa Barbara-based inbound call technology firm Invoca has added Salesforce.com to its investor roster and released a new voice intelligence technology to help its customers decode incoming calls. Invoca’s software lets marketers generate unique phone numbers for campaigns and then route and track the calls and sales that result. The company has raised more than Read More →