Transphorm gets $3.6M grant
Transphorm, the Goleta-based energy efficiency firm backed by $63 million from Google and other investors, has received a $3.6 million federal grant to improve solar panels. Transphorm’s technology uses a semiconducting material called gallium nitride to drastically reduce heat waste in electronic systems. The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy went to Transphorm in Read More →
Read More →Forecast: Crummy, with a slight chance of worse
The professional services and hospitality industries are leading the South Coast’s private-sector job creation, with each adding about 1,000 jobs since the recession ended.
Read More →Hospital construction a bright spot
More than $1 billion is flowing into the tri-county economy as new hospital and health care facilities around the region take shape.
Read More →Ventura County’s recovery, by the numbers
More than 3,000 private-sector jobs have been created in Ventura County over the last year, according to economists with the California Economic Forecast.
Read More →Puzder: CKE won’t leave before 2015
Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl’s Jr. parent CKE Restaurants, has for the first time publicly put a hard date on the fast-food firm’s possible move to Texas.
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