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 | Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

								
Amgen buys biotech company, partners with another

								Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies								
Thousand Oaks-based biopharmaceutical giant Amgen bought a Netherlands-based company and partnered with a Monrovia-based company in an effort to fend off competitors. Amgen announced Sept. 16 that it will buy Dezima, a biotech company focused on developing new treatments for dyslipidemia, a disease where a person has an abnormal amount of lipids in their blood. Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

								
Goleta-based Sientra to offer 525,000 new shares

								Latest news, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies								
Goleta-based breast implant manufacturer Sientra updated documents for its second  public offering on Sept. 14 and it will offer 525,000 new shares. On Sept. 3, Sientra filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a new public offering. At the time, the documents did not list the amount of shares Sientra planned to offer. Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

								
Hewlett-Packard laying off 25,000 to 30,000 employees

								Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies								
Hewlett-Packard is laying off 25,000 to 30,000 employees globally as part of a restructuring program that will save the company $2.7 billion per year. HP announced the layoffs on Sept. 15 at a meeting of its securities analysts. The cuts represent about 10 percent of HP’s workforce of about 302,000. It wasn’t immediately clear how Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Tuesday, September 15th, 2015

								
Carey & Hanna moving from Ventura to Oxnard

								Latest news, Personal Finance								
Ventura-based Carey & Hanna Tax and Wealth Planners is relocating to a larger office in Oxnard. Carey & Hanna Tax and Wealth Planners will move into the former National University building at 1000 Town Center Drive, Suite 200, on Oct. 22. The office has been located at 1445 Donlon Road, Suite 6 in Ventura since Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Monday, September 14th, 2015

								
Oil workers file lawsuit against Plains All American Pipeline

								Energy, Latest news, Law & Goverment								
A lawsuit representing oil industry workers who were laid off following the Refugio oil spill was filed against Plains All American Pipeline, Santa Barbara-based law firm Cappello & Noel recently announced. Richard Lilygren, who has worked on the offshore oil platforms near Santa Barbara for more than a decade, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Monday, September 14th, 2015

								
Amgen licenses cancer drug to NatPharma

								Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies								
Amgen has licensed an experimental cancer drug to a Chicago biotech company founded and controlled by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. NatPharma LLC is licensing the rights to AMG 337 from Thousand Oaks-based Amgen to develop and sell AMG 337. The drug is an experimental, phase-two cancer treatment. The licensing agreement is the second between Amgen and Read More →

							

						        

							


							

							


					        

					     

							
					       


					     


												


								
								

								
																
								
 | Monday, September 14th, 2015

								
Goleta-based Deckers hits 52-week low for stock price

								Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies								
Goleta-based Deckers Brands hit a 52-week low on Sept. 11 when it briefly fell to $59.62 per share. It closed Sept. 14 at $61.10. Shares of Deckers dropped about 33 percent so far this year from $89.74 on Jan. 2 before it closed at $60.65 on Sept. 11. Investment research firm Zacks said weak earnings Read More →