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| Friday, February 17th, 2012

Ceres delays again, warns of Brazilian drought

Agribusiness, Green Coast, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies

Ceres, the Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm, has delayed its initial public offering again. It also said Friday that its existing investors might buy as many as a fifth of the shares slated to hit the market and that a drought in Brazil could hurt it sweet sorghum yields. The pushed back its planned initial Read More →

| Friday, February 17th, 2012

Op/ed: You must tell your employees about 401(k) fees

Op/Eds, Opinion

Employers have a fiduciary responsibility to the participants in their 401(k) programs.

| Friday, February 17th, 2012

Op/ed: An open letter to Ventura County — True pension reform is long overdue

Op/Eds, Opinion

Ventura County is clearly an outlier in its pension system and taxpayers are bearing the burden.

| Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The ethics behind blowing the whistle

Op/Eds, Opinion

By Steve Mintz on February 3, 2012 Is it right to spy on an employer and violate one’s confidentiality obligation in order to be financially rewarded for blowing the whistle on corporate wrongdoing? This is an important question from an ethical perspective in light of the greater acceptance by society of those who blow the Read More →

| Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Level to break ground on new HQ

Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Economy

Level Studios, a San Luis Obispo-based digital marketing and branding firm, said it plans to break ground Feb. 3 on a new 46,000-square-foot, two-story building on the Central Coast that will house up to 300 employees in the next two years. The new facility will be built in the East Airport Commerce Park in San Read More →

| Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Amid losses, Community West hit with regulatory order

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Earnings, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

[wikichart align=”center” ticker=”CWBC” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” rollingdate=”6 months” width=”390″ height=”245″] The parent company of Goleta-based Community West Bank has reported an $8.6 million loss for the fourth quarter and disclosed a consent order from banking regulators. Community West Bancshares said Feb. 1 that its fourth-quarter performance was impacted by a $6.7 million allowance against deferred taxes Read More →

| Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Inphi taps new CEO after profits fall 93%

Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies

Inphi Corp., the Santa Clara-based chip firm with a large engineering force in Thousand Oaks, ousted its CEO on Feb. 1 as it announced that profits plummeted by 93 percent in 2011. Inphi designs chips aimed at packing more memory into Internet servers and increasing bandwidth in the Internet backbone. The company announced that Ford Read More →