Recently added articles from Orange County Business Journal:
Del Taco Boss Courts Franchisees, Growth
Sep 28, 2009; ... FOOD: Murphy borrowing from playbook of bagel chain he revived A brother's broken leg and a girl got Paul Murphy into the restaurant business. "I kind of stuck with it as a result," said the executive who turned around Colorado's Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc. and is ...
Rad Gig
Sep 28, 2009; ... Blizzard is Geek Heaven for 1,000-Plus Workers Beyond the big iron gates of Irvine's Blizzard Entertainment Inc. is a world of fun, games, fantasy and suspended adolescence masquerading as work. Blizzard, the largest maker of video games played on the Internet, took over its ...
Windfall Brings Fisker Opportunity, Critics; Guv Pitches OCPAC Fest
Sep 28, 2009; ... OCInsider Landing a half-billion-dollar, low-interest federal loan to make plug-in hybrid cars is a coup for tiny Irvine-based Fisker Automotive, its celebrated CEO/designer Henrik Fisker and its big Silicon Valley backer, VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Fisker says its ...
Investors Bet on Answer for Grubb Debt Question
Sep 28, 2009; ... REAL ESTATE: Shares surge in days before $27 million payment is due Wall Street appears to be expecting something for troubled Santa Ana-based Grubb & Ellis Co. The commercial real estate brokerage and investor, whose stock was decimated during the downturn, saw a big run-up ...
Drug Maker Readies North County Plant
Sep 28, 2009; ... HEALTHCARE: Biotech plans to hire hundreds of workers as part of push Seal Beach is set to play a big role in what could be a $1 billion drug to fight prostate cancer. Seattle-based biotechnology drug developer Dendreon Corp. plans to open a plant in Seal Beach that's set to ...