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| Monday, November 1st, 2010

Investec sells $10M property

Real Estate

Investec Real Estate Companies announced Oct. 27 that it has sold a 12-acre residential property in Carpinteria to a developer who plans to build 73 homes there next year. The property, which is part of the Lagunitas mixed-use development, sold for $10 million, Investec said. Investec will keep the 13-acre office portion of Lagunitas. The Read More →

| Monday, October 25th, 2010

Amgen reports earnings drop

Earnings, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen said Oct. 25 that third-quarter earnings fell 14 percent to $1.3 billion as revenue flatlined. Amgen is the world’s biggest biotech company and the largest private employer in the Tri-Counties. It reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.36, a decrease of 9 percent compared to the same quarter last year. Total revenue Read More →

| Monday, October 25th, 2010

FDA OKs Aranesp for pre-dialysis patients

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Amgen’s anemia treatment Aranesp is safe for kidney patients whose disease doesn’t require dialysis, a federal panel announced Oct. 18 in response to a study that found the drug could increase stroke risk in those patients. Outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the treatment shouldn’t be withdrawn or limited to a Read More →

| Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Cal Poly launches entrepreneurship center

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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has unveiled a new center that university officials hope will foster more student startups and bring the school’s research out of the lab and into the marketplace. About 130 people gathered at Cal Poly’s new Technology Park on Oct. 21 for the launch of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read More →

| Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

40 Under 40 2010 slideshow

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This year marked our 10th 40 Under 40 event. The dinner, held Oct. 18 at the Topa Tower Club in Oxnard, was sold out, with about 200 guests on hand to honor our newest class of young business leaders.

| Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Social business center at CSUCI gets first grant

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The California Institute for Social Business at CSU Channel Islands has received its first gift, a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The institute was founded earlier this year with the help of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the inventor of the microcredit model of social businesses. “Social business” Read More →

| Monday, October 18th, 2010

SLO volunteers die in Baja plane crash

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Four San Luis Obispo County residents on a humanitarian medical trip to Mexico were killed in a plane crash on Oct. 15. The group consisted of Graciela Sarmiento and James Thornton, both doctors from Arroyo Grande Community Hospital; attorney Roger Lyon of Cayucos, who owned the plane and was flying it; and Cal Poly San Read More →