Ventura company wins prize from Regenerative Business Alliance
Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, headquartered in Ventura, won the top prize for “fooding” from the Seattle-based Regenerative Business Alliance. Recipients showed “a deep and extended scope of aspiration to pursue and achieve shifts in one or more industries, show transformation in a social system, work to unravel and evolve cultural paradigms, and leverage governing agreements to give Read More →
MindBody gives details of partnership with Under Armour
MindBody announced details of a long-awaited partnership with global sportswear and equipment manufacturer Under Armour on Oct. 4. Now users of Under Armour’s MyFitnessPal app will be able to find fitness classes near them through the app. MindBody, a San Luis Obispo-based developer of merchant processing software for yoga and fitness studios, said in a Read More →
Comcast spends $30M on Semtech stock in deal to create trial LoRa network
Camarillo semiconductor manufacturer Semtech announced a partnership with Comcast on Oct. 5 for the development of a trial low-power wide area network in Philadelphia and San Francisco this fall. Semtech and Philadelphia-based internet provider, cable provider and media company Comcast said in a news release the trial will help accelerate the rollout of a much Read More →
Nurses claim labor law violations in suit against Twin Cities Community Hospital
A group of 53 nurses filed claims against Templeton’s Twin Cities Community Hospital for allegedly violating California labor laws, according to a news release from the law firm Baltodano & Baltodano. The claims were filed in private arbitration on Oct. 3 because of the confidentiality provisions in the nurses’ contracts with the hospital, said Lauren Read More →
Anchore completes $5 million funding round
Updated at 9:15 a.m. Oct. 5 Santa Barbara startup Anchore completed a $5 million funding round, the company announced Oct. 4. Serial entrepreneur Saïd Ziouani launched the company April 6. It provides a portal for software containers used in IT software app development by software developers and system administration teams. The company was founded with Read More →
Amgen partners with Swedish company to develop drugs
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen will pay a Swedish company up to $410 million to help it develop oncology and neuroscience drugs. The companies announced the partnership Oct. 4 and said Nuevolution will use its Chemetics drug discovery platform to discover drugs for Amgen. Nuevolution may receive licensing payments along with development, commercial and milestone payments. It Read More →
Amgen leukemia drug cures 39 percent of treated patients, study finds
Amgen’s new leukemia drug cured 39 percent of pediatric patients who received treatment, the Thousand Oaks company said Oct. 3 after publishing results of a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Blincyto, which treats a rare form of the disease known as precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, sent 27 patients out of 70 Read More →
