Amgen to lay off hundreds, including in Thousand Oaks
Biotech giant Amgen is in the process of laying off hundreds of workers, including as many as 100 at its Thousand Oaks headquarters. According to a spokesperson for the company, approximately 500 workers will be let go beginning April 2. Less than 20% of those workers are located in Thousand Oaks. Amgen employs around 22,000 Read More →
Read More →Stoker sues his former EPA boss over dismissal
Mike Stoker, a Carpinteria resident and former regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is suing his former EPA bosses on defamation charges in federal court. The Pacific Coast Business Times reached out to both Stoker and Andrew Wheeler, the administrator of then-President Donald Trump’s EPA while Stoker was a regional administrator. Neither was Read More →
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San Luis Obispo County braces for another long PCH closure
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Read More →For love and money: Valentine’s Day offers a welcome boost for pandemic-battered businesses
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Read More →Automatic for the people: UCSB researcher looks at how robots can work for us
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Read More →Deckers shares jump after strong earnings report
Deckers Brands, a fashion and footwear company based in Goleta, posted record-setting earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31 and beat analysts’ expectations with ease behind the strength of its most recognizable brand, Ugg, and its latest rising star, Hoka One One. Deckers reported a 14.8% increase in revenue compared to the same quarter a Read More →
Read More →UCSB’s Nakamura adds Queen Elizabeth Prize to his Nobel
Shuji Nakamura, a professor of materials and electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara, is one of the recipients of the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, or QEPrize. The five recipients are all pioneers in the field of light-emitting diodes, or LED lighting. Nakamura began developing LED technology while a researcher in Japan Read More →
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