OCB Bancorp’s second quarter net income up over last year
Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesIn its second quarter earnings report, OCB Bancorp — parent company of Ojai Community Bank, Santa Barbara Community Bank, Ventura Community Bank and Santa Paula Community Bank — reported net income year-to-date of $516,000, or 25 cents per share, up from $372,000 last year. “Loans also continue to grow, increasing approximately $49 million since June Read More →
Santa Barbara’s Aurrion acquired for $165 million
Latest news, TechnologySunnyvale-based Juniper Networks announced Aug. 4 in a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it acquired Santa Barbara-based silicon photonic chip maker Aurrion for $165 million. Aurrion makes components that transmit information quickly using cheap, easily mass-produced silicon wafers. UC Santa Barbara professor John Bowers founded Aurrion in 2008 and the company quickly Read More →
Abbvie sues Amgen to block sales of Humira biosimilar
Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Law & Goverment, TechnologyThousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen faces a lawsuit seeking to block it from selling a biosimilar of AbbVie’s popular Humira. The rheumatoid arthritis medicine is Abbvie’s best seller. Sales were up 17 percent in the second quarter to $4.15 billion and accounted for 61 percent of AbbVie’s 2015 revenue. Abbvie claims Amgen’s proposed copy would Read More →
UCSB’s John Bowers wins 2017 Photonics Award
Energy, Higher Education, Latest news, TechnologyUC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor John Bowers was awarded the 2017 Photonics Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on Aug. 3. Bowers, who has been at UCSB since 1987, helps lead UCSB’s institute for energy efficiency, which is known for making significant scientific breakthroughs. The award recognizes his “pioneering Read More →
Inogen’s second quarter revenues, profits way up
Earnings, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public CompaniesInogen revenues increased 24 percent and profits increased 48 percent, the company said when it released second quarter earnings results Aug. 4 Revenues for the Goleta-based maker of direct-to-consumer respiratory products increased 24 percent from $44 million during the second quarter of 2015 to $54.57 million in 2016, beating analyst revenue estimates of $52.44, million Read More →
Teledyne’s second quarter revenues, profits, earnings per share down
Earnings, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public CompaniesTeledyne Technology revenues fell, profits fell and earnings per share fell during the second quarter, the company announced when it released second quarter earnings results Aug. 4. The Thousand Oaks-based industrial conglomerate saw second quarter revenues fall 6.7 percent from $573.6 million in 2015 to $534.9 million in 2016, which missed analyst estimates of $546.7 Read More →
Inphi completes sale of Rambus
Latest news, TechnologyInphi 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 →
