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| Thursday, January 19th, 2017

Community West Bank opens new Santa Maria Branch

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies

Community West Bancshares, parent company of Community West Bank, announced the opening of its full-service Santa Maria branch at 122 Betteravia Road on Jan. 17, replacing its 2615 S. Miller St. location. The move continues its Central Coast expansion after the bank opened its first full-service San Luis Obispo branch at 4464 Broad St. in Read More →

| Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

Curvature to merge with SMS Systems

Latest news, Technology

Santa Barbara-based Curvature announced its merger with Charlotte, N.C. IT data center company SMS Systems Maintenance Services Jan. 18. The combined company will have more than $500 million in revenue and 2,000-plus employees. Financial details of the merger were not disclosed. Following the transaction, the combined company will operate under the name SMS | CURVATURE Read More →

| Monday, January 16th, 2017

Sares-Regis buys 29 acres at Conejo Spectrum in Thousand Oaks

Latest news, Real Estate

The Sares-Regis Group bought 29 acres of land at the Conejo Spectrum Business Park in Thousand Oaks with plans to build out industrial buildings, according to Colliers International. The property management company with an office in Goleta partnered with an investment firm to purchase the land near Rancho Conejo Boulevard and Conejo Spectrum Drive for Read More →

| Friday, January 13th, 2017

Patent ruling in favor of Amgen has shares skyrocketing

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies

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| Friday, January 13th, 2017

UC Santa Barbara ranked No. 1 for industry research funding

Higher Education, right, Technology

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| Thursday, January 12th, 2017

Bookkeeper in Santa Maria gets year in jail for embezzlement

Latest news, Law & Goverment

A former employee of Abacus Premier Property Management in Santa Maria was sentenced to a year in jail for embezzling $163,750 from her former employer, Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley announced on Jan. 11. The former Abacus bookkeeper, Melissa Reynoso, pled to one count of grand theft by embezzlement and one count of Read More →

| Thursday, January 12th, 2017

Camarillo’s Micronor to debut signal conditioner at trade show

Latest news, Technology

Camarillo-based Micronor will debut a new single channel signal conditioner created in collaboration with German company Optocon AG, at the SPIE Photonics West from Jan. 28-Feb 2. The product, designated FOTEMP1-OEM-MNT, integrates fiber optic temperature sensing into industrial control systems, medical instrumentation or other designs, to provide temperature monitoring in challenging environments. The technology could Read More →