Mark Madler

Snap Inc.’s share price tumbled in April even after the tech company reported encouraging first-quarter earnings that included increased revenue. Shares in the Santa Monica-based technology company that owns social media app Snapchat closed at $9.09 on April 29. The following day, the price declined more than 12% to close at $7.96 on the highest trading volume of the past 52 weeks, with 143 million shares exchanged that day.

Retirement isn’t in the cards just yet for Andy Heyward, chief executive of Kartoon Studios Inc. “I am going to continue making children’s animated programming and try to do something positive for the future generations of kids,” said Heyward, 76, who founded his animation studio in 2009. Heyward is an animation veteran with over four decades of experience. The UCLA graduate got his start at Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc.

Rocket Lab USA Inc. had a few announcements this month. First, the Long Beach aerospace company said on April 3 that it was making available an expanded suite of space-grade radio frequency communications systems known as Frontier radios. Next, the company on April 8 introduced its family of customizable, next-generation solar arrays – Standardized Array.