Eight arrested at Oxnard firm on mortgage fraud charges
Eight people were arrested this morning on suspicion of carrying out a mortgage fraud scheme of filing bogus loan applications that generated hefty fees and commissions for the suspects while causing $11 million in losses for lenders when the homes went into foreclosure. The Ventura County District Attorney’s office began the investigation into Oxnard-based New Read More →
Read More →BKF Capital boots Qualstar CEO in battle for control
The battle for control of Simi Valley-based Qualstar Corp., a data storage and power supply maker, appears to have ended in victory for Steve Bronson and Florida-based BKF Capital Group. The investment firm started grappling with the Qualstar’s brass more than year ago, when it began a proxy contest to replace board members and executives. Read More →
Read More →Ceres loses $9.3M, missing estimates
Thousand Oaks-based agricultural biotech firm Ceres’ third-quarter net loss widened to $9.3 million, or 38 cents per share, on revenue of $1.4 million, it said July 11. The energy crop firm attributed the higher loss to added expenses from expanding business operations in Brazil and higher-than-expected variability in how much fuel its crops can produce. Read More →
Read More →JM Holliday Associates and De Vicente Mills Architecture to merge
Santa Barbara architecture firms JM Holliday Associates and De Vicente Mills Architecture are merging. The two firms, which have been working closely together in the same office space, will officially merge to become DMHA Architecture & + Interior Design. “Our new team more than doubles the size of our existing firms and dramatically increases our Read More →
Read More →Yardi acquires apartment research company
Yardi Systems, a Santa Barbara-based technology company focused on designing products for real estate and property management, said July 3 that it has acquired a company that compiles and publishes data on the apartment industry. Pierce-Eislen is an online technology company that provides up-to-the-minute data to the commercial multifamily housing industry. The company researches and Read More →
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