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Amgen buys $66 million stake in genetics device company

By   /  Thursday, October 18th, 2018  /  East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology, Tri-County Public Companies  /  Comments Off on Amgen buys $66 million stake in genetics device company

Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen broadened its reach into genetics research Oct. 18 with a $66 million investment in handheld DNA sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Genetics has been a research focus for Amgen since its 2012 acquisition of deCODE, particularly in the area of Alzheimer’s therapies. The news follows closely the release by Oxford Read More →

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Atara hiring 100 workers in Conejo Valley

By   /  Friday, June 15th, 2018  /  Central Coast Health Watch, East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on Atara hiring 100 workers in Conejo Valley

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Dubroff: Amgen’s investment in online education will pay dividends

By   /  Friday, June 15th, 2018  /  Central Coast Health Watch, Columns, Education, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on Dubroff: Amgen’s investment in online education will pay dividends

Henry Dubroff

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Colleges use pitch competitions to attract students, connect with industry

By   /  Friday, May 11th, 2018  /  Education, Latest news, Small Business, Technology, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Colleges use pitch competitions to attract students, connect with industry

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La Kretz family donates $6 million to UCSB for research center

By   /  Friday, January 27th, 2017  /  Education, Latest news  /  Comments Off on La Kretz family donates $6 million to UCSB for research center

UC Santa Barbara received a $6 million gift to establish a research center at its Santa Ynez Sedgwick Reserve from Linda La Kretz Duttenhaver and her father, Morton La Kretz. A graduate of the school, La Kretz Duttenhaver has formerly provided funds to renovate a ranch house and barn on the 6,000-acre property the university Read More →

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Google, Microsoft vie for UCSB top minds with quantum initiatives

By   /  Friday, September 12th, 2014  /  South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Google, Microsoft vie for UCSB top minds with quantum initiatives

Google has selected a UC Santa Barbara lab for a new quantum-computing initiative just a short distance from where Microsoft has an established outpost, setting up a battle among tech giants on the South Coast. On Sept. 2, Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab said that it was launching a new hardware push to design and Read More →

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California Energy Commission awards grants to two regional research projects

By   /  Monday, December 23rd, 2013  /  East Ventura County, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on California Energy Commission awards grants to two regional research projects

Ron Pretlac of GreenTech Motors Corp. in Westlake Village and Peter Jardine of Shape Change Technologies in Thousand Oaks will receive almost $95K each from the Energy Innovations Small Grant Program.

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