NiMin Energy to dissolve
Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesNiMin Energy, a small independent oil and gas firm based in Caprinteria, is selling its Wyoming assets for $98 million and dissolving itself. The company, which is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, is also in talks to sell its San Joaquin Valley assets in California. The company said the money will be used to Read More →
Teledyne’s profits rise in Q1
Earnings, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public CompaniesThousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies beat Wall Street’s expectations on April 25 when it reported first-quarter profits of $35.7 million on $494 million in sales. The profits work out to 96 cents a share, well above the 91-cent average estimate of six analysts, according to data from Thomson Reuters. Sales were 5.5 percent above the same Read More →
Inphi loses $1.5M in Q1
Latest newsNearly three months after Inphi. Corp. hired a new CEO to recover from a 93 percent drop in profits in 2011, the semiconductor company reported a net loss of $1.5 million for the first quarter. The Santa Clara-based company, which designs chips aimed at packing more memory onto Internet servers and increasing bandwidth, employs a Read More →
Amgen revenue up 9 percent
Latest news[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:AMGN” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”24-10-2011″ enddate=”24-04-2012″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Amgen’s total revenue shot up 9 percent during the first quarter of this year, the Thousand Oaks-based biotech giant said in an April 24 earnings report. The biotech company reported revenue of $4 billion, up from $3.7 billion in the first quarter of 2011. Total product Read More →
Regulators scrutinize Community West
Banking Industry, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesCommunity West Bancshares faces a new order from regulators that limits its ability to pay out dividends, sell stock or incur new debts without the prior approval of the federal banking overseers. The parent of Community West Bank also agreed with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on April 23 that the Goleta firm Read More →
Amgen’s founding CEO dies
Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public CompaniesGeorge Rathmann, the founding CEO of Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, has died, the company said April 23. Born in 1927, Rathmann helmed what is now Ventura County’s largest private-sector employer from 1980 to 1988 and was the chairman of the board until 1990. He had been recruited by Bill Bowes, one of Amgen’s founders, to run Read More →
Heritage Oaks regulatory order removed
Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Central Coast, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesPaso Robles-based Heritage Oaks Bancorp has bucked a regulatory consent order placed on it two years ago. The news came on April 23, as the firm reported that it earned $1.6 million in the first quarter, a 204 percent increase over the same quarter a year earlier. The parent company of Heritage Oaks Bank and Read More →
