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| Thursday, September 8th, 2016

SpaceX launch at Vandenberg AFB delayed

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A SpaceX launch slated for 9:49 p.m. Sept. 19 at Vandenberg Air Force Base will not go ahead as scheduled. In response to a Business Times inquiry on Sept. 8, a SpaceX spokesman said in an email “There’s no SpaceX launch scheduled for Sept. 19,” but did not elaborate further. On Sept. 1, a SpaceX Read More →

| Wednesday, September 7th, 2016

Mission Wealth Management launches Social Values Portfolio

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Santa Barbara-based financial advising firm Mission Wealth Management launched its new Social Values Portfolio, which aligns investments with an investor’s values. “The introduction of the Social Values Portfolio is in perfect alignment with Mission Wealth’s purpose as a business to serve both our clients and the community at large,” Mission Wealth CEO and founder Seth Streeter Read More →

| Wednesday, September 7th, 2016

Calavo Growers grew income in third quarter

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Santa Paula-based Calavo Growers followed record highs last quarter with a 47.5 percent increase in net income for the third quarter of 2016, the company reported Sept. 7. Income rose to $12.7 million for the quarter, compared to $8.6 million for the same period last year, and earnings per diluted share rose to 73 cents, Read More →

| Wednesday, September 7th, 2016

Trade Desk to price IPO shares at $15

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Shares of The Trade Desk are expected to price at $15 when the company holds its initial public offering later this month. The Trade Desk, based in Ventura, said in regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission dated Sept. 6 that the company expects each of its 4.7 million shares offered to price between Read More →

| Tuesday, September 6th, 2016

Australian military buys AeroVironment drones

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AeroVironment will enter the business of supplying the Australian military with a transaction involving its Wasp drones. AeroVironment said in a Sept. 6 news release that it sold an unnamed numbers of its Wasp AE family of drones to the Australian Armed Forces. AeroVironment will partner with Australian firms XTEK Limited, Sentient Vision and General Read More →

| Tuesday, September 6th, 2016

Mindbody acquires app developer HealCode

Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Technology

MindBody, a San Luis Obispo-based developer of merchant processing software for yoga and fitness studios, acquired Austin, Texas–based HealCode, which develops web and mobile apps for holistic health service companies. MindBody and HealCode worked closely together previously and about 7,500 of MindBody’s 55,000 subscribers already used HealCode widgets in MindBody software for things like client Read More →

| Thursday, September 1st, 2016

FDA approves Amgen’s Blincyto

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Amgen’s drug Blincyto for treating pediatric leukemia patients Sept. 1. In Dec. 2014, the FDA approved Blincyto to treat patients with precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is a rare form of the disease. On Sept. 1, the agency extended Blincyto’s approval to include pediatric patients with another Read More →