May 2, 2025

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Friday, March 5th, 2021

AppFolio looks ahead after loss in fourth quarter

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, South Coast, Subscriber content, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

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Procore CEO Craig "Tooey" Courtemanche sits in his office at the company's Carpinteria headquarters (Nik Blaskovich photo)

| Friday, March 5th, 2021

As it plans IPO, Procore reports growing revenue, growing losses

Banking & Finance, Latest news, left, South Coast, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

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| Thursday, March 4th, 2021

Amgen to buy cancer treatment biotech firm for $1.9B

Banking & Finance, East Ventura County, Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, middle, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen, one of the biggest biotech companies in the world, will get bigger with the $1.9 billion acquisition of Five Prime Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company developing stomach cancer therapies. Amgen announced the acquisition March 4 and the deal is expected to close by the end of the second quarter of 2021. Under Read More →

| Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

Procore IPO back on track with new SEC filing

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| Monday, March 1st, 2021

AppFolio posts loss in fourth quarter

Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Real Estate, South Coast, Technology, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies

AppFolio, a Goleta-based property management software company, failed to meet analysts’ expectations with a net loss in the fourth quarter of 2020. Analysts tracked by Zacks Equity Research had predicted earnings per share of 13 cents, similar to AppFolio’s performance in the fourth quarter of 2019. Instead, the company suffered a net loss of $513,000 Read More →

| Friday, February 26th, 2021

Company founders talk social responsibility at Central Coast MIT Enterprise Forum

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| Friday, February 26th, 2021

AeroVironment’s Mars drone was more than a decade in the making

East Ventura County, Latest news, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories, Top Story, Tri-County Economy

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