
Ceres set to sprout: Crop firm names date for $132M IPO

Ceres plans to go public on Feb. 9, raising as much as $132 million on the Nasdaq under the symbol CERE.

Not just wave-surfing: Grover Beach gears up to offer hyperfast access

City leaders have rolled out a plan to give Grover hyperfast network access to Asia.

Blast into the future: Quintron to upgrade liftoff sound system

Quintron Systems is installing a new voice system for launches at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

A sunny breakthrough: Gaviota ranch tests solar pump that could change industry

Kitson Landscape Management is trying out a new solar pump that could be a game-changer for the agricultural industry.
Level to break ground on new HQ
Level Studios, a San Luis Obispo-based digital marketing and branding firm, said it plans to break ground Feb. 3 on a new 46,000-square-foot, two-story building on the Central Coast that will house up to 300 employees in the next two years. The new facility will be built in the East Airport Commerce Park in San Read More →
Inphi taps new CEO after profits fall 93%
Inphi Corp., the Santa Clara-based chip firm with a large engineering force in Thousand Oaks, ousted its CEO on Feb. 1 as it announced that profits plummeted by 93 percent in 2011. Inphi designs chips aimed at packing more memory into Internet servers and increasing bandwidth in the Internet backbone. The company announced that Ford Read More →