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Santa Ana Company Sponsors Industry Trade Pub

Paint Maker Helping With Distribution to Fellow ProsA Santa Ana-based paint manufacturer is sponsoring distribution of a new trade publication aimed at people in the general contracting, property management and remodeling industries, in the Media & Marketing column.

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Second Bidder For Meade

A San Jose competitor has jumped into the bidding for Irvine-based Meade Instruments Corp.

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25 Going on 1.5

New Generation of Business Emerges as Little Saigon Marks a Quarter Century

Thank the first generation of Vietnamese-American immigrants for what is now Little Saigon.

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Broadcom Finds Room for Baseband Chips in Low-Cost Smartphones

TECHNOLOGY: Asian brands give foothold in Qualcomm niche

Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. is winning new business from low-cost smartphone makers in India, China and other Asian markets

Long Beach Register? Cell-ing Newport Coast; SA’s Downtown Legs

OC INSIDER Column by Jerry Sullivan

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Dissident Aims for Founders’ Seats on STEC Board

TECHNOLOGY: Balch Hill offers nominees for three spots

The largest independent investor in Santa Ana-based STEC Inc. is seeking to replace three of the company’s eight board members, setting the stage for a proxy battle

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Street Likes Questcor Deal With Novartis

HEALTHCARE: Drug maker rises on word of $135M buy

Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. is beefing up its pipeline.

Mission Control

Allergan Exec’s Career Didn’t ‘Just Fall Out of the Sky’

WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS: Lynn Salo learned that “you have to take control of your career” when she got started with Irvine-based drug maker Allergan Inc.

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Other items of interest from Orange County Business Journal

Biolase Adds President to Complement Pignatelli

CEO Says He Remains Committed to Company

Irvine-based dental laser maker Biolase Inc. followed up last week’s dismissal of rumors that Chief Executive Federico Pignatelli would leave, in the Healthcare column

Clean Energy’s Pickens Sees Brighter Days in Future

First Profit Since ’07 IPO Amid Infrastructure Push

Legendary oilman and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens, who cofounded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. some 25 years ago, said he believes the Seal Beach-based company may have finally turned the corner, in the Technology column.

By the Numbers - ORANGE COUNTY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS

Orange County has more than 1,500 construction contractors. Includes analysis, charts and figures.

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Yamaha Completes Move to Boost U.S. ATV Manufacturing

Cypress-based Yamaha Motor Corp. USA said it has finished moving manufacturing of most of its all-terrain vehicles from Japan to Georgia.

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Ceradyne to Trim 90 Workers in Costa Mesa

3M Co. subsidiary Ceradyne Inc. plans to lay off 90 workers at its Costa Mesa facility at the end of July, according to a filing with the state Employment Development Department.

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Asics Gets Ahead

Irvine-Based Brand Has Lapped Expectations on Sales

APPAREL: Asics is running ahead of schedule