93-year-old engineer still designing new cars
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Breast implant maker Sientra battles its way back
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Agilent Technologies announces dividend, new chairman
Agilent Technologies announced March 15 that stockholders of record April 4 would receive a quarterly dividend. The life sciences company with offices in Camarillo will pay 13.2 cents per share of common stock on April 26. The company also announced the election of a new chairman of its board of directors. Koh Boon Hwee, a Read More →
Former iPayment executives face embezzlement charges
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged two former iPayment executives March 10 with causing an estimated $11.6 million in losses to the Westlake Village company through fraudulent accounting practices including false expense reimbursements and inflated invoices. Criminal charges were also brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California against the Read More →
Goleta’s Resonant expands licensing with customer
Goleta radio frequency front-end filter designer Resonant announced additional licensing with an existing customer March 9. The agreement provides for the development and licensing of two kinds of filters and a new design for Resonant called a Quadplexer, targeting the Chinese market. The products will use a Chip Scale Packaging design and the two filters Read More →
Dubroff: Companies play let’s make a deal but they don’t always win
There’s no question that the current wave of corporate mergers is reshaping big chunks of the corporate landscape on the Central Coast. But all mergers are not created equal and history suggests that more than half of mergers involving large publicly traded companies don’t really work out at all. For a look at what’s working Read More →
Santa Barbara’s QAD reports $15.5 million net loss
Santa Barbara manufacturing software company QAD reported a $15.5 million net loss, or 84 cents per diluted Class A share for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, as a result of a valuation allowance related to deferred tax assets. The valuation allowance was connected to the company’s investments in cloud technology, the March 9 earnings Read More →
