Op/ed: You must tell your employees about 401(k) fees
Op/Eds, OpinionEmployers have a fiduciary responsibility to the participants in their 401(k) programs.
Op/ed: An open letter to Ventura County — True pension reform is long overdue
Op/Eds, OpinionVentura County is clearly an outlier in its pension system and taxpayers are bearing the burden.
The ethics behind blowing the whistle
Op/Eds, OpinionBy Steve Mintz on February 3, 2012 Is it right to spy on an employer and violate one’s confidentiality obligation in order to be financially rewarded for blowing the whistle on corporate wrongdoing? This is an important question from an ethical perspective in light of the greater acceptance by society of those who blow the Read More →
Level to break ground on new HQ
Latest news, Technology, Tri-County EconomyLevel Studios, a San Luis Obispo-based digital marketing and branding firm, said it plans to break ground Feb. 3 on a new 46,000-square-foot, two-story building on the Central Coast that will house up to 300 employees in the next two years. The new facility will be built in the East Airport Commerce Park in San Read More →
Inphi taps new CEO after profits fall 93%
Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public CompaniesInphi Corp., the Santa Clara-based chip firm with a large engineering force in Thousand Oaks, ousted its CEO on Feb. 1 as it announced that profits plummeted by 93 percent in 2011. Inphi designs chips aimed at packing more memory into Internet servers and increasing bandwidth in the Internet backbone. The company announced that Ford Read More →
InTouch scores $6M investment
Latest news, TechnologyGoleta-based InTouch Health, a telemedicine robot maker, has received an investment of $6 million from iRobot. InTouch’s telemedicine robots allow doctors to examine patients and prescribe drugs remotely. The company, which has signaled that it intends to go public, received its last round of funding in a $10 million private placement in 2010. In July, Read More →
