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Goleta-based Community West Bank opened a new loan production office in San Luis Obispo, the company announced Sept. 17. The bank snatched up area expertise when it hired Bill Filippin in May as the executive vice president. Filippin previously worked with San Luis Obispo-based Heritage Oaks Bank (and Mission Community Bank until it was merged Read More →
Three titans of the music industry had mixed views of the future of digital music and artists’ ability to profit from it during a panel discussion in Santa Barbara Wednesday evening. The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast featured Tom Conrad, co-founder and retired chief technology officer of Pandora; Marc Geiger, head of the Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based biopharmaceutical giant Amgen bought a Netherlands-based company and partnered with a Monrovia-based company in an effort to fend off competitors. Amgen announced Sept. 16 that it will buy Dezima, a biotech company focused on developing new treatments for dyslipidemia, a disease where a person has an abnormal amount of lipids in their blood. Read More →
Goleta-based breast implant manufacturer Sientra updated documents for its second public offering on Sept. 14 and it will offer 525,000 new shares. On Sept. 3, Sientra filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a new public offering. At the time, the documents did not list the amount of shares Sientra planned to offer. Read More →
Hewlett-Packard is laying off 25,000 to 30,000 employees globally as part of a restructuring program that will save the company $2.7 billion per year. HP announced the layoffs on Sept. 15 at a meeting of its securities analysts. The cuts represent about 10 percent of HP’s workforce of about 302,000. It wasn’t immediately clear how Read More →
