AeroVironment chairman to retire
AeroVironment, a Simi Valley-based drone and robotics company, announced May 11 that its chairman of the board, Tim Conver, plans to retire later this year. He will be replaced as chairman by Wahid Nawabi, AeroVironment’s president and CEO. Conver has been a member of the board since 1988 and chairman since 2007. He was CEO Read More →
Sales and losses both rise at Sientra
Sientra missed estimates and almost doubled its net loss over the course of a year, but saw increases in net sales and gross profit as well as decreases in operating expenses, according to its first-quarter earnings report, released May 11. The Goleta-based medical aesthetics company saw a net loss of $54.7 million, or $1.01 per Read More →
AppFolio down 5% after reporting lower earnings and higher expenses in first quarter
AppFolio, a Goleta-based property management software developer, saw its net income drop more than 75% over the past year in an earnings report released May 10. The company reported net income of $479,000, or 1 cent per share, for the first quarter of 2021, down from $1.98 million, or 6 cents per share, in the Read More →
Labor secretary promotes job training, community colleges
U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said May 10 that he wants to promote expanded partnerships with community colleges to support manufacturing jobs that have gone begging in Ventura County and on the Central Coast. Walsh spoke at the annual conference of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, which was held virtually. In Read More →
Procore discloses projected share price for $600 million-plus IPO
Carpinteria-based Procore Technologies plans to price its initial public offering between $60 and $65 per share, which would raise more than $600 million and give it a market capitalization of around $8 billion. Procore, a cloud software company for the construction industry, filed an amended S-1 statement on May 10 with the U.S. Securities and Read More →
Trade Desk faces uncertainty in post-pandemic advertising market
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Dubroff: After a decade ruled by tech, value stocks could make a comeback
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