Amgen wraps up buyback auction
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:AMGN” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”08-06-2011″ enddate=”08-12-2011″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, expects to repurchase 9.6 percent of its outstanding shares at a price of $60 per share after asking shareholders to name their price in a buyback auction. The biotech giant and major Ventura County employer said Dec. 8 it had completed Read More →
Deckers boots up new HQ
Construction has begun on Deckers Outdoor Corp.’s 152,000-square-foot headquarters in the Cabrillo Business Park.
Buffett plugs into SLO solar farm
The 550-megawatt Topaz solar project in northern San Luis Obispo County got a new owner on Dec. 7 when Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced it was acquiring the project from Arizona-based First Solar. The price was not disclosed, but the project is expected to cost about $2 billion. After a lengthy permitting process, First Solar Read More →
Defense firm to cut 170 jobs in Thousand Oaks
A defense contractor is cutting about 170 jobs in Thousand Oaks as it shutters a facility that made signal jammers to prevent IED attacks during the Iraq war. McLean, Va.-based ITT Exelis’ electronic systems division operated a factory with about 215 employees on Willow Lane in Thousand Oaks. About 45 of those workers will be Read More →
Disney vet talks animation at CSUCI
Hollywood is reinventing the technology of visual effects each time a studio produces a new feature film. That’s the view of Drew Tolman, a post-production supervisor at The Walt Disney Co. and veteran of the animation industry. “Visual effects changes are so rapid that they are literally happening production by production,” she told members of Read More →
Semtech’s earnings rise
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NASDAQ:SMTC” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”30-05-2011″ enddate=”30-11-2011″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Camarillo-based Semtech, a chip design firm, posted 67 percent increase in quarterly earnings on a slight increase in sales for the most recent quarter. Semtech, which is in its 2012 fiscal year, said third quarter net income came to $27 million, compared with $16.1 million a Read More →
