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By Staff Report / Monday, December 9th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on ValueClick sells websites to About.com parent for $80M
Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick is selling its owned-and-operated websites to the parent company of Dictionary.com, Match.com, Ask.com and About.com. The aggregate purchase price was $80 million, according to a regulatory filing.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 6th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on $86.2M Inogen IPO puts Goleta startups in play
Goleta-based Inogen, a maker of portable oxygen concentrators founded by UC Santa Barbara students, has filed for an initial public offering to raise up to $86.2 million. While many successful companies have been spun out of UCSB by professors and doctoral students, Inogen would likely be the first company founded by an undergraduate team to go public. Inogen won the program’s very first business plan competition in 2001.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 6th, 2013 / Technology / Comments Off on The gift of gadgets: The best of the region’s gizmos for the geeks on your list
This year, consider giving a consumer electronics gift from one of these 10 tri-county companies. While not all of the gizmos are made here, the design, engineering, marketing and most of the other important parts of the business are right in our backyard.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 6th, 2013 / Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Entrepreneurs guide high school students in business pitch contest
A six-week program that helped more than 450 middle and high school students in Ventura learn about entrepreneurship and craft business plans will culminate in a final pitch competition on Dec. 11.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 6th, 2013 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Transphorm, Fujitsu partner on GaN plant
Transphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency chipmaker spun out of UC Santa Barbara that has raised $110 million in venture capital, is partnering with Tokyo electronics giant and one-time rival Fujitsu Ltd. to create a new company in Japan.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 6th, 2013 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on Cal Poly startups tackle roommate relations and the textbook market
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo continues to pump out student startups at a steady rate, with a new expense-splitting app for roommates and textbook reselling service both gaining traction on launch.
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By Staff Report / Thursday, December 5th, 2013 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on UCSB snags $48M in Army funds for biology-related research
UC Santa Barbara said Dec. 5 that the U.S. Army has renewed its contract with the university’s Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, providing an additional $48 million over three years to support biology-related research.
The new funds extend a decade of unclassified research in areas such as biotechnology tools, futuristic materials, energy generation and storage, systems and synthetic biology and neuroscience.
