
Westlake Village startups close in on Innovation Open prize

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Dubroff: Trump’s immigration ban could derail innovation in America

Innovation happens in the most surprising ways. And history shows that some of America’s greatest innovators are immigrants. Recently, many of these immigrant-entrepreneurs are refugees like Intel’s Andy Grove, whose family left Hungary after the USSR cracked down. Or the kids of refugees — think Steve Jobs, whose dad was from Syria. Most of them Read More →
Atara Biotherapeutics moving research division to Thousand Oaks

Atara Biotherapeutics will move its research and development division from Westlake Village to Thousand Oaks, the company said in a news release. The company plans to occupy 91,000 square feet at the yet-to-be-constructed Conejo Spectrum Business Park off of Lawrence Drive and Conejo Spectrum Street. The Sares-Regis Group bought 29 acres of land at the Read More →
Resonant shipping more than 1 million pre-production parts

Goleta-based radio frequency filter designer Resonant announced Feb. 8 the first shipments of more than 1 million pre-production parts to four manufacturers by a licensee customer, under an agreement established in May of 2016. The agreement covered three high-volume frequency bands called Surface Acoustic Wave duplexers. “Shipping these pre-production parts represents one of the last Read More →
MindBody revenues grow, net loss narrows

Revenues for San Luis Obispo cloud-based business management software company MindBody grew 35 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, narrowing its net loss for the year to $23 million, or 58 cents per share. Net losses for the quarter were $1.6 million, or 4 cents per share, down from $6.5 million for the same Read More →