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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Features, Small Business, Technology / Comments Off on Making it click: Shopatron CEO taps into 25 years in business with book
For Ed Stevens, the CEO of San Luis Obispo-based Shopatron, the path to changing how the world shops started in Russia just after the end of the Cold War.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, January 3rd, 2014 / Columns, Technology / Comments Off on IPOs may be the name of the game for tri-county tech in 2014
When I’m out at networking events, I often get asked, “How’s tech doing in the region?” And over the past year or so, my answer has been, “We’ll know the answer in 2014 and 2015.”
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By Staff Report / Monday, December 30th, 2013 / Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Ventura County won’t host drone tests
Ventura County’s hopes to be designated a Federal Aviation Administration test site for drones were dealt a setback on Dec. 30 when the FAA picked six winners in the first round of a nationwide competition.
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By Staff Report / Friday, December 27th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Earnings, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies / Comments Off on CalAmp shares slide as Q4 outlook misses
Shares of Oxnard-based CalAmp plunged 9 percent on Christmas Eve, after the company delivered a fourth-quarter outlook that missed analyst expectations. The wireless products company said it expects fourth-quarter profits of between 19 and 23 cents per share, lower than the 24 cents per share analysts were expecting, on average, according to FactSet.
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By Staff Report / Monday, December 23rd, 2013 / East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on California Energy Commission awards grants to two regional research projects
Ron Pretlac of GreenTech Motors Corp. in Westlake Village and Peter Jardine of Shape Change Technologies in Thousand Oaks will receive almost $95K each from the Energy Innovations Small Grant Program.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 20th, 2013 / East Ventura County, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Atara raises $38.5M for dialysis, cancer drugs
Atara Biotherapeutics, a Thousand Oaks firm that emerged last year with major Silicon Valley backers and licenses to develop six Amgen assets, has raised $38.5 million to pursue treatments for dialysis complications and ovarian cancer.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 20th, 2013 / Central Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Mafi-Trench gears up: Santa Maria manufacturer plans for new plant
James Reilly has been pushing for a new manufacturing plant to bring about 100 new jobs to Santa Maria for two years, and now the real work of getting it financed is about to begin.