Dole CEO offers $1.1 billion to take firm private
Westlake Village-based Dole Food Co.’s stock soared more than 21 percent Tuesday morning as CEO David Murdock made a cash offer of $12 a share for the 60 percent of the company he doesn’t own in a deal valued at $1.1 billion. Dole is one of the biggest producers and importers of fresh fruit and Read More →
Read More →Cal Poly names interim business deans
Doug Cerf, area chair for accounting and business law at the Orfalea College of Business, will serve as interim dean starting July 1. Cerf has been area chair for accounting and business law since 2007, and a Cal Poly faculty member since 1990. The announcement was made in a news release from Cal Poly. Cerf’s Read More →
Read More →Cool Planet funding hits $54M
Camarillo-based Cool Planet Energy Systems said on Friday that it had raised $29.9 million of what it expects to be a $100 million funding round for its first grass-to-fuel plant production facility. Cool Planet, which has received funding from Google Ventures and BP in the past, has designed a machine that uses heat and pressure Read More →
Read More →Goleta to sue state over missing RDA funds
The city of Goleta is taking on the big guys as it brings a lawsuit against the state, officials told community and business leaders at an event on May 30. Calling the lawsuit a “David vs. Goliath moment” at Goleta’s annual State of the City luncheon, Mayor Roger Aceves said the city will file papers Read More →
Read More →Cal Poly student startup sold
A San Luis Obispo startup founded by Cal Poly students has been acquired by a Silicon Valley firm, marking the second sale of a student business from the school in two years. Quest.to, which was founded during a Startup Weekend event in 2012 and then attended the HotHouse summer accelerator program organized by the school’s Read More →
Read More →Asta Fluidic takes top spot at UCSB competition
A UC Santa Barbara team developing a cheap and easy technology to test for a serious pregnancy complication is the winner of the school’s 14th annual New Venture Competition. Asta Fluidic Technologies is developing a chip that could drastically reduce the time and cost of testing for fetomaternal hemorrhage, a condition in which the red Read More →
Read More →Allan Hancock College selects new leader
Allan Hancock College has named Kevin Walthers its new president and superintendent. Walthers, who will take up the top post at the Santa Maria campus in early July, comes from Las Positas College in Livermore. Allan Hancock said he was selected after a nationwide search that was launched when former president and superintendent José Ortiz Read More →
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