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Plumas Bancorp (Nasdaq:PLBC), the parent company of Plumas Bank, today announced record earnings for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2015. Earnings for the three months ended September 30, 2015 totaled $1.6 million or $0.32 per diluted share, an increase of $273 thousand from $1.3 million or $0.27 per diluted share during the […]

Proceeds to be Used Primarily for Research and Development Initiatives and ICELL8(TM) Single-Cell System Commercialization Activities WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WGBS) today announced that the Company has completed the previously announced underwritten public offering. Due to the exercise in full of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, the Company received gross proceeds of...

What are the details? Greatbatch, Inc. (NYSE:GB) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Greatbatch Ltd. had priced its previously announced private offering of $360 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2023 at an issue price of 100%. The notes will have a coupon of 9.125% and will mature on November 1, 2023. The […]

what are the details? Windstream (NASDAQ:WIN) Carrier Solutions has reorganized its business unit around a vertical sales focus. As part of that move, Mike Shippey, President of Windstream Carrier Solutions, announced the promotion of Joe Scattareggia to Senior Vice President of Sales. Scattareggia will oversee all sales teams within the Carrier organization, which are being […]

Chequed.com and SocialFlow Also Complete Fundraising in Third Quarter 2015 Rand Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:RAND), a business development company that makes venture capital investments in companies with emerging product, service or technology concepts, announced that one of the largest holdings in its portfolio, Rheonix, Inc. (www.rheonix.com), recently completed a $28.6 million Series B...

Oil and gas CEOs jointly declare action on climate change The chief executive officers of 10 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies – which together provide almost a fifth of all oil and gas production and supply nearly 10% of the world’s energy – today declared their collective support for an effective climate […]

The share price of global retail giant, Walmart (NYSE:WMT) hit the wall on Wall Street yesterday, dropping nearly 10% from 66.61 to 60.02. The company announced its projected earnings for the next three years. It did not set well with the people to whom those earnings mean the most – Walmart investors. Walmart investors have […]

Round lead by Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8 with participation from Y Combinator and Peter Thiel from Founders Fund BuildZoom today announced a $10.6 million Series A funding round led by Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8 with participation from Y Combinator and Peter Thiel of Founders Fund. The investment from Y Combinator represents one of […]

How did they do? Westamerica Bancorporation (Nasdaq:WABC), parent company of Westamerica Bank, generated net income for the third quarter 2015 of $14.9 million and diluted earnings per common share of $0.58, compared to net income of $14.8 million and EPS of $0.58 for the prior quarter, and net income of $15.2 million and EPS of […]

What are the details? Liquid Holdings Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LIQD), a SaaS provider of investment management solutions for the buy side, announced today that the Company’s request to stay the suspension of trading in the Company’s common stock pending the completion of its appeal of a delisting notice issued by the staff of Nasdaq has been […]