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By Staff Report / Thursday, December 6th, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Vitesse tees up stock offering
Camarillo-based Vitesse Semiconductor is planning a stock offering despite years of losses and a shareholder base that’s underwater in terms of book value. Vitesse said Dec. 6 that it plans an offering that will be underwritten by Needham & Company as the sole bookrunning manager of the offering and Craig-Hallum Capital Group as co-manager. The Read More →
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By Marlize van Romburgh / Friday, November 30th, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Union Bank to slash almost half of SBB&T work force
Union Bank will lay off almost 500 Santa Barbara Bank & Trust employees, or nearly half the bank’s work force, the San Francisco-based lender announced on the eve of its acquisition of Pacific Capital Bancorp. A spokesperson for Union Bank told the Business Times that 468 SBB&T positions will be eliminated over the next year. Read More →
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By Staff Report / Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on RingRevenue dials up $3.25M in funding
Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue has raised $3.25 million in fresh venture capital in a round led by investors GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to date to more than $10 million. The company, founded in 2007, initially built a technology platform to let digital advertisers track sales calls the way they track Read More →
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By Dana Olsen / Monday, November 19th, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Amgen aims to put cholesterol drug on market
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 16th, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on $430M deal rolls Row 44 onto Nasdaq
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By Staff Report / Wednesday, November 14th, 2012 / Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Latest news / Comments Off on UPDATE: Pacific Capital sale to close Dec. 1
Union Bank’s $1.5 billion acquisition of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust’s parent company is slated to close Dec. 1 now that federal regulators have signed off on the deal. In approving the sale of Pacific Capital Bancorp with a formal order on Nov. 14, Federal Reserve officials set in motion a number of events. They Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 9th, 2012 / Columns, Law & Goverment, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on Amgen case before SCOTUS could stymie new class-action suits
On Nov. 5, Thousand Oaks-based Amgen argued a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could make it much harder for shareholders to form a class when suing a company for making misleading statements that distort its stock price. The outcome, which is likely to be decided by the politics of the individual justices, could Read More →