Facebook to give UCSB $1.5M to study data centers
Energy, Green Coast, Higher Education, Latest news, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County EconomyFacebook will give $1.5 million to UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency to fund research into energy-efficient data centers and artificial intelligence, UCSB announced Feb. 4. The institute will use the three-year grant to “investigate advanced energy-efficient data center infrastructure, including low-power optical interconnects for computer networks and machine learning with reduced carbon footprint,” Read More →
UCSB’s Nakamura adds Queen Elizabeth Prize to his Nobel
Energy, Higher Education, Latest news, right, Technology, Top StoriesShuji Nakamura, a professor of materials and electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, is one of the recipients of the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, or QEPrize. The five recipients are all pioneers in the field of light-emitting diodes, or LED lighting. Nakamura began developing LED technology while a researcher in Japan Read More →
Inphi reports record revenue, declining losses in 2020
Banking & Finance, Earnings, East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public CompaniesInphi, a Santa Clara semiconductor company with sizable operations in Thousand Oaks, reported record revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020 and a smaller net loss than the same quarter a year earlier. Inphi, which reported its earnings on Feb. 2, is in the midst of being acquired by Marvell Technology Group, a larger competitor Read More →
Arcutis stock soars on drug trial news; company announces $150M capital raise
Banking & Finance, East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public CompaniesStock of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, a Westlake Village-based company developing dermatological treatments, shot up more than 30% on Feb. 1 after the company released positive results from a recent clinical trial. Later in the day, Arcutis said it plans to sell $150 million worth of its common stock. Before stock trading opened, the company announced positive Read More →
Street Smarts: Santa Barbara Zoo returns, but without its oldest resident
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Community Bank of Santa Maria CEO picked for Fed advisory board
Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Women Inc.Janet Silveria, the president and CEO of Community Bank of Santa Maria, has been selected as a member of the Federal Reserve’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council. The 12-member council was established by the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors in 2010 to give the board input on the economy, lending conditions and other issues that Read More →
Inogen names new CEO
Banking & Finance, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public CompaniesInogen, a medical device company in Goleta that makes portable oxygen concentrators, named a new president and CEO on Jan. 27. Nabil Shabshab, 56, will lead the company starting Feb. 8, Inogen said. He has spent the last nine years with the medical technology company Becton Dickinson and Company, including the past three and a Read More →
