Minuteman 3 missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
Latest newsThe U.S. Air Force conducted its second intercontinental ballistic missile test from Vandenberg Air Force Base in a week Feb. 25. An unarmed Minuteman 3 launched at 11:01 p.m. from Vandenberg on Feb. 25 only five days after the U.S. launched another Minuteman 3. The missile traveled about 4,200 miles and hit a target near Read More →
Central Coast Innovation Award honorees announced
Latest newsThis year the Business Times introduced its newest venture, the Central Coast Innovation Awards. The inaugural awards featured a series of tri-county companies, both startups and established, who are revolutionizing the way business is done in the region. The Innovation Awards will be culminated with a ceremony on March 24, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Read More →
Startup Village to showcase 31 spinout companies
Latest newsStartup Village will showcase 31 of the most promising spinout companies from UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and California Lutheran University. They will be interacting with sponsors and guests from 3:30-5:30 p.m. March 24 at the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, prior to the inaugural Central Coast Innovation Awards. Startup Read More →
Pacifica buys another Cambria hotel
Latest newsPacifica Hotels has added to its Central Coast portfolio of independent hotels with its acquisition of San Simeon Pines Seaside Resort in Cambria, the company announced on Feb. 25. Pacifica has been on a hotel buying spree throughout the Central Coast. It now has six properties in Cambria and a total of 34 along the Read More →
Live streaming of Phillips 66 crude-by-rail meeting crashes
Energy, Latest newsMore people have participated in the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission discussion on Phillips 66 crude-by-rail expansion project than any tri-county topic in recent memory. So many that they crashed the county website Feb. 25. Viewers near and far were unable to tune in to the county’s live stream of the morning meeting, which Read More →
Ceres fires KPMG over financial report
Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesCeres Inc. fired its accounting firm Feb. 23 during a disagreement over a “going concern” statement in Ceres’ 2015 annual report. Ceres, a Thousand Oaks-based ag-biotech company, made the announcement in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing says Ceres hired Los Angeles-based Marcum as its new independent accountant and dismissed its Read More →
Amgen selling $708 million in bonds to Swiss
Latest newsThousand Oaks-based biotech giant Amgen said Feb. 23 it will sell about $700 million in bonds on the Swiss market. Amgen said it would sell 700 million Swiss Francs worth of bonds. That equals about $708 million. Amgen submitted the bonds to the Swiss market for pricing Feb. 23 and said it expected to sell Read More →
