Inphi completes sale of Rambus
Inphi completed the sale of its memory product business to Sunnyvale-based Rambus Aug. 4. The Santa Clara-based Inphi, which designs chips aimed at packing more memory onto Internet servers and increasing bandwidth, employs a large engineering force in Thousand Oaks. The sale will allow it to focus on its communications business. As part of the Read More →
Satellite lands at Vandenberg Air Force Base
An earth-imaging satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base July 28 in preparation for a September launch. The WorldView-4 Satellite arrived at Vandenberg after being shipped 250 miles in a rolling mobile cleanroom from Sunnyvale. Lockheed Martin built the satellite, which will launch at about 11:30 a.m. Sept. 15 from Vandenberg’s launch pad SLC-3E. The Read More →
Land O’Lakes completes Ceres acquisition
Minneapolis-based Land O’Lakes completed its acquisition of Thousand Oaks-based ag-biotech company Ceres on Aug. 1. On June 17, Land O’Lakes, an ag and food conglomerate that had $13 billion in sales in 2015, announced it would buy Ceres for $17.2 million. For about two decades, Ceres had been devoted to developing biofuels using crops like Read More →
CFO of Goleta’s Resonant leaves company
Goleta-based Resonant, a designer of filters for radio frequency front-ends, announced July 29 that John Philpott, the company’s chief financial officer, has left the company for personal reasons. Ross Goolsby of Bridgepoint Consulting will join the company Aug. 1 and will become interim CFO after the company files its form 10-Q for the second quarter. Read More →
MindBody reports revenue increase, narrows loss in second quarter
San Luis Obispo-based software firm MindBody substantially narrowed its loss for the second quarter, an indication the company’s plan to reach profitability is on track. The company said July 27 that its revenue jumped 36 percent to $33.6 million as its loss, using generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP, narrowed to $6.6 million or 16 Read More →