How Zero Motorcycles builds the Tesla of two-wheelers in Silicon Valley
About 45 miles south of the Silicon Valley factory where Tesla Motors is building out the electric automobile industry one car at a time, Zero Motorcycles is..
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Mobile Ranger app-tour helps launch Santa Cruz Wharf into 21st century
by Julia Gaudinski Founder, Mobile Ranger It’s the dawn of the 1910s, and the many tentacled arms of national rail lines have wreaked havoc on ocean shipping..
Powerslayer by Velvetwire featured at MoMA NYC for NYCxDESIGN
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat In honor of NYCxDESIGN (New York City’s official citywide celebration of design) the MoMA Design Store has..
Plantronics reports record revenues for fiscal year 2014
by Jennifer Pittman Santa Cruz Sentinel Company focuses on Unified Communications Although fourth quarter numbers were slightly down from a year ago, Santa..
Red Hat to acquire Inktank, a cloud storage company with UCSC roots
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz Inktank founder Sage Weil developed the company’s open-source Ceph data storage system as a computer science graduate..
TechRaising 2014: 48 Hours of Innovation, Ambition, and Collaboration
by Xochitl Rojas-Rocha Participants gather to make magic happen “You’re all here to make magic happen,” said Margaret Rosas in her welcoming speech at..
Velvetwire opens online store with energy saving mobile charger
by Eric Bodnar and Jennifer Lee Velvetwire founders Santa Cruz technology startup, Velvetwire, has opened its online store, making available the first, locally..
Cruzio’s Master Plan for broadband expansion in Santa Cruz County
by James Hackett Cruzio With the news last week that the long-planned CASF-backed fiber backbone from Santa Cruz to Soledad — a project that Cruzio has..
Etsy’s innovative Craft Entrepreneurship Program comes to Santa Cruz
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Etsy, a global online network of independent artists and designers, announced last week that Santa Cruz County..
Garden of Gaming in Santa Cruz is Tilled and Ready for Growth
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat Exploring the local gaming wave With the Princeton Review’s announcement that UC Santa Cruz’s Games and..