North Bay Business Journal

  • 50 new jobs is a great start heading to 2012

    November 28th, 2011

    Several months ago I had the privilege of participating in a group tour of Agilent Technologies’ sprawling and visually stunning Fountaingrove campus. When the tour was done, I felt for the first time in 25 years of following Agilent that I understood — in a non-technical way, for sure — what the company does in Santa Rosa. (Coincidentally Agilent is a winner of one of our Healthiest Companies Awards and is profiled below.)

  • Agilent Technologies: Ultimate Frisbee or walking a trail

    November 28th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA – Agilent Technologies’ Electronic Measurement Group headquarters on Fountaingrove Parkway is a global showcase for employee well-being. During the last few years the company has poured $50 million into plant upgrades with workers’ health a primary focus.

  • Santa Rosa lab expands drug screens for synthetic marijuana

    November 22nd, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Redwood Toxicology, a division of Massachusetts-based Alere Toxicology, is expanding its testing for synthetic cannabinoids to cover new “legal” highs.

  • Business news: Week of Nov. 21, 2011

    November 21st, 2011

    Brief news about north San Francisco Bay area companies: RPM Mortgage opens San Rafael branch; Speedpro Imaging-Marin starts vinyl banner recycling; Marin General Hospital Foundation raises $340,000 for Spine & Brain Institute; Calix customer Vermont Telephone Company deplys optical network terminals; Russian River Valley wineries form tasting room network Taste Route 116

  • Agilent Technologies names Santa Rosa’s Nersesian COO

    November 17th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that Ron Nersesian has been appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.

  • Wireless growth helps propel Agilent revenue

    November 15th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) rounded out the its fiscal year with a strong fourth quarter, seeing revenues and orders rise 10 percent from the previous year. The Electronic Measurement Group headquartered in Santa Rosa saw revenues jump 12 percent from the same quarter last year, although orders were flat for the period.

  • Autodesk third-quarter earnings increase 22 percent

    November 15th, 2011

    SAN RAFAEL — Design software maker Autodesk Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today reported its third-quarter net income increased 22.9 percent in the previous 12 months, and net revenues rose 15.1 percent in that timeframe.

  • Autodesk acquires Canadian gaming software developer

    November 7th, 2011

    SAN RAFAEL — Design software developer Autodesk Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) has acquired the assets of Montreal-based GRIP Entertainment Technology, which makes artificial-intelligence tools for game software.

  • Claret Medical raises $3 million, gets EU product approval

    October 31st, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Claret Medical, Inc., a recently formed Santa Rosa-based developer of methods designed to protect against brain embolism during vascular intervention and surgery, received European Union approval today for its Montage System. It’s the second product approval this year. Claret has raised most of a $3.5 million round of private equity financing opened in late summer.

  • A Dominican ‘Venture Greenhouse’ first: A startup is acquired

    October 31st, 2011

    SAN RAFAEL, NOVATO — Novato-based green energy contractor Evolvelectric has acquired the LED lighting consultant Illumalighting, making it the first company to “graduate” from Dominican University’s Venture Greenhouse.

  • Sample some wines, charge the car

    October 24th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA – The Inman Family Winery is the first Sonoma County winery to install a privately-owned, publicly available, solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging station.

  • Forums giving small firms access to advice, services

    October 24th, 2011

    Santa Rosa Junior College’s Small Business Development Center hosted the North Bay stop for the state-wide Next Steps for Small Business tour last Tuesday.

  • Taleo plans to double North Bay staff

    October 24th, 2011

    PETALUMA –Taleo Corporation, a Dublin-based developer of online employee management systems, recently expanded its operations in the North Bay and has plans to expand further still.

  • Barry Schuler: For the future to be ours, ‘become an education activist’

    October 17th, 2011

    It may seem a bit cliché, but I am a classic American Dream story. Very humble upbringing with a strong family emphasis on education. I was encouraged to pursue my dreams (as long as I became a doctor or lawyer first). I have been lucky enough to have been born during a period of history where technology has advanced more in a couple of decades than in the five prior millennia. Through the entrepreneurial formula of vision + hard work + blood sweat and tears, I have achieved more than I ever thought possible, and now get the reward of living in the North Bay, and being a farmer.

  • Constellation mechanizes some high-end harvest

    October 17th, 2011

    Constellation Wines U.S., the world’s largest wine producer, is making a big move forward this year with machine harvesting for higher-end wines.

  • Calix stock tumbles on sharply lower third-quarter estimate

    September 27th, 2011

    PETALUMA — Telecommunications equipment and software developer Calix Inc. (NYSE: CALX) today released preliminary estimates for third-quarter revenue that were sharply lower than guidance from two months ago, and the company attributed the slowdown partly to slower-than-expected federal broadband infrastructure spending.

  • Tektronix selects airport location

    September 19th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Tektronix has leased a 10,042-square-foot space near the Sonoma County Airport for its Sonoma County design center, the company and Basin Street Properties announced today.

  • Solano Center for Business Innovation launched

    September 19th, 2011

    SOLANO COUNTY – A new non-profit group is focussed on helping Solano’s small businesses grow revenues with an eye toward creating jobs. Charles Rieger, formerly with IBM and now owner of a construction business, is the guiding force behind the Solano Center for Business Innovation.

  • Venture-backed LumiGrow moves to Novato

    September 12th, 2011

    NOVATO — Backed by its first round of venture funding, LumiGrow Inc. relocated from San Francisco’s Treasure Island to Novato to further develop its line of specially tuned LED grow lights for food science research and commercial greenhouses.

  • Hospital projects highlight local adoption of BIM

    September 12th, 2011

    NORTH BAY — In less than a decade, building information modeling (BIM) has become a major construction simulation and visualization process, and it’s being employed heavily on two large hospital projects now under construction in North Bay counties.

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