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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 2nd, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Weeding out weed: EST device sniffs out medical marijuana
In a laboratory in Newbury Park, a team of engineers has taught a machine to take a big whiff of pot.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, December 2nd, 2011 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Defense firm to cut 170 jobs in Thousand Oaks
A defense contractor is cutting about 170 jobs in Thousand Oaks as it shutters a facility that made signal jammers to prevent IED attacks during the Iraq war. McLean, Va.-based ITT Exelis’ electronic systems division operated a factory with about 215 employees on Willow Lane in Thousand Oaks. About 45 of those workers will be Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Features, Technology / Comments Off on Eyeing an IPO: InTouch brings public company executive on board
In its quest to go public, InTouch Health is getting the band back together in its executive suite.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 25th, 2011 / Top Stories / 1 Comment
DenMat, the maker of Lumineers dental veneers and a major Santa Maria employer, has a new owner and a new chief executive. Centre Partners, a private equity firm, and Mill Street Partners, a firm founded this year by dentistry industry veterans, took control of the company on Nov. 15. The acquisition comes four years after Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 18th, 2011 / Top Stories / 3 Comments
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated and corrected at 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 21. Scroll to the bottom for the correction.] The State Compensation Insurance Fund and the region’s biggest private company are taking off the gloves in a fight over a $50 million fraud judgment. At issue is whether an $80 million dividend paid Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, November 18th, 2011 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Former tri-county business leaders pass away
The Tri-Counties lost two formerly prominent CEOs in November. A. A. “Bud” Milligan, the longtime leader of the Bank of A. Levy, the largest community bank in Ventura County until it was sold to First Interstate Bank in 1994, died on Nov. 3 in Santa Barbara. He was 94. Chris Edgecomb, co-founder and CEO of Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 / Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Panel tackles startup funding
There’s less venture capital to start technology businesses, and most of it is being crammed into existing firms rather than raw startups. But for new entrepreneurs who have a viable product in a large market with the team that can make it happen, there are as many opportunities as ever to get started and get Read More →
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