Past News Articles
News: February 2020
- UC Santa Cruz joins national “tech for social good” network – February 26, 2020
- The Armada Group acquired by Eliassen Group – February 25, 2020
- Pinpoint Science Announces Collaboration with Analog Devices to Advance Novel Nanosensors for Pathogen Detection – February 25, 2020
- Thoughtfull Toys Rolls Out a Crowdfunding Campaign that Invests in the Future – February 25, 2020
- Van Williams, vice chancellor of information technology, talks diversity – February 25, 2020
- March 4 Tech meetup: Luma Yoga, Tech Futures, Legends of Rec, CruzHacks 2020 Winners, SapientX, Pixel Scientific, Tile & more – February 20, 2020
- Ecology Meets Tech at February’s Monterey Bay Tech Startup Meetup – February 20, 2020
- Santa Cruz County Launches Performance Measurement Dashboards – February 20, 2020
- Marina firm develops tech that could help whale entanglement – February 20, 2020
- Looker’s chief product officer on leadership, and why he’s helping tech leaders of color get into executive roles – February 19, 2020
- Looker’s Nick Caldwell Talks Tech, Leadership & Giving Back – February 19, 2020
- Local nonprofit leader, Jacob Martinez receives prestigious James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award – February 19, 2020
- Levered Learning to Compete in Premier Global Competition for Emerging Companies that “Bend the Arc of Human Potential – February 18, 2020
- Ready For Anything: How Cruzio Planned, Built, and Tested a 10 Gigabit Connection in Less Than 8 Hours – February 18, 2020
- Looker Completes Google Acquisition – February 12, 2020
- Poly Introduces Poly Lens for Cloud-based Insights and Video Endpoint management – February 11, 2020
- Looker Launches Certification Program to Empower People with Validated Data Skills – February 11, 2020
- Santa Cruz: An Emerging Green Tech Hub – February 11, 2020
- Former Polycom Robert Hagerty to take over as Poly interim CEO after Joe Burton steps down – February 11, 2020
- Elaboration: Machine Learning, People Centered – February 11, 2020
- Steve Blum: SB 917 is a plausible PG&E public buyout plan, if the public wants to pay the price – February 11, 2020
- Salinas Valley Energy Forum Attracts Record Audience – February 11, 2020
- The Tech Talent Struggle – February 11, 2020
- Make Agtech Work For You at the 7th Annual Salinas Valley AgTech Summit – February, 11, 2020
- UCSC Genome Browser posts the coronavirus genome – February 7, 2020
- VentureBeat: Paystand raises $20 million to modernize B2B payments with blockchain – February 6, 2020
- Paystand raises $20M to give businesses a frictionless, open infrastructure for commercial finance – February 6, 2020
- Unprecedented study yields most comprehensive map of cancer genomes to date – February 5, 2020
- Engineering speaker series highlights diverse voices in tech – February 5, 2020
- Watch: Patrick Reilly on how to protect your intellectual property (IP) – February 5, 2020
- #NotMe: Tech Company Launches App to Report Harassment Anonymously – February 5, 2020
- Women of Data: Áine Dundas, International Marketing Director – February 5, 2020
- How to be part of the circular fashion industry using SellHound – February 4, 2020
- What do community college students gain from engineering abroad programs? – February 4, 2020
- Saudi Arabia’s Abdul Latif Jameel bets on flying taxis with Joby Aviation – February 2, 2020
News: January 2020
- Rope Partners, leader in wind turbine blade repair, maintenance, and performance-enhancing services, has been acquired – January 30, 2020
- SellHound Takes on SXSW – January 30, 2020
- Watch: interview with Mary Noe, founder/CEO of Switchback Systems – January 28, 2020
- ICYMI: Drug Discovery Startup Unnatural Products, Received $6 M in Seed Funding led by ARTIS Ventures – January 28, 2020
- Jenny Reardon, a leading voice in the field of genomics, named a fellow of The Hastings Center – January 28, 2020
- 5 Ways to Kickstart a Data-Driven Company Culture in 2020 – January 28, 2020
- The New Rules for Paid Ads on Social Media — and How They Impact Nonprofits – January 28, 2020
- Local Launchpad iiED Hosts Startup Weekend – January 28, 2020
- How UC Santa Cruz Engineers are proposing ways to improve electrical delivery – January 21, 2020
- Second Wave of !!Con West Tickets to be Released – January 21, 2020
- Joby Aviation plans to build a massive factory for flying cars in Marina – January 21, 2020
- Cabrillo CIS Students Host Region-wide Cybersecurity Competition – January 21, 2020
- Emerging field of ‘forensic genealogy’ links DNA testing and family histories to solve cold cases – January 21, 2020
- US B2B blockchain company inks deal with JCB of Japan – January 21, 2020
- Equal Access Santa Cruz Wins Big, Part II – January 21, 2020
- Dave Evans & Dean Hovey to speak on Re-Designing Design Thinking at Feb 5 event – January 16, 2020
- Poly: Six Predictions for Collaboration in the Next Decade – January 15, 2020
- Toyota Makes a New $394 Million Bet on Flying Taxis – January 15, 2020
- Joby Aviation Raises $590 Million in Series C Financing to Launch Air Taxi Service – January 15, 2020
- Engineer, philanthropist Jack Baskin dies at age 100 – January 14, 2020
- $1M gift creates William Wallace Campbell Director’s Fund for Lick Observatory – January 14, 2020
- Equal Access Santa Cruz Brings Fiber Optic Infrastructure to Capitola Area – January 14, 2020
- Startup Weekend Monterey Bay Returns to CSUMB – January 14, 2020
- Design Santa Cruz has a Vision for 2020 – January 9, 2020
- BLIX eBIkes Transitions to New E-Commerce Model – January 9, 2020
- Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age – January 7, 2020
- Year in Review for Baskin School of Engineering, 2019 – January 7, 2020
- Watch: SNAP Ring Launches in London – January 7, 2020
- How genetics and social games drive evolution of mating systems in mammals – January 7, 2020
- OPOS-Fullpower launches “The First 24/7 Opioid Compliance Solution” – January 7, 2020
News: December 2019
- Uber’s plan to launch an air taxi service in 2023 just got a boost from Joby Aviation – December 21, 2019
- UCSC HCI Experts Help Mediate between Oceangoing Robots, Scientists and Engineers – December 12, 2019
- What happened to Inboard, Buoy (Resideo), YaDoggie? – December 12, 2019
- UCSC team chosen again to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge – December 12, 2019
- Why the Google-Looker Deal May Not Close This Year – December 10, 2019
- Reestablishing trust in education (most of our users don’t realize they’re using blockchain) – December 10, 2019
- Ontera and QuantuMDx Collaborate to Advance Sepsis Diagnosis – December 10, 2019
- It’s Computer Science Education Week: Do You Know Where the Girls Are? – December 10, 2019
- Titans of Tech announced for 2020 – December 6, 2019
- Former UCSC graduate researcher John Felts, now CEO and founder of Cruz Foam, describes the rewards, hard work, and excitement of becoming an entrepreneur – December 5, 2019
- No code application and microservice development gain traction – December 5, 2019
- HubX: a new kind of tech center in Santa Cruz – December 3, 2019
- CruzHacks 2020 seeks mentors and judges for January event – December 3, 2019
- Crowd Machine and Optimum Team Up to Offer Accelerated Application Development – December 3, 2019
- This Woman Entrepreneur Gives Farmers Information – to Grow – December 3, 2019
- Poly Builds on its 50-year Heritage of Contact Center Solutions Designed to Enhance Customer Satisfaction – December 3, 2019
News: November 2019
- UC Santa Cruz to expand successful Girls in Engineering program – November 22, 2019
- Baskin School of Engineering launches “Good Engineering” website to highlight achievements of engineering faculty, alumni, and students – November 21, 2019
- Women Who Cowork announces crowdfunding campaign – November 20, 2019
- TEDxSantaCruz Announces Speakers for THE ART OF HOPE Scheduled for the Rio Theatre December 7 – November 20, 2019
- Level-up Your Workspace Marketing: 12 Benefits of a Clickable Floor Plan – November 19, 2019
- SVBJ honors Digital Nest with Community Impact Award – November 19, 2019
- Call for speakers! Two-day celebration of joy, excitement, surprise of computing, returns to Santa Cruz in February 2020 – November 19, 2019
- Interested in finding the right intern? Here’s the workshop for you. – November 19, 2019
- Dec 4 is Holiday Tech: Kershner Design, Parallel Flight, Areias Systems, Spanner, WaWiCo, Almost Human Media – November 19, 2019
- Here’s what you missed while I was at the tango festival – November 14, 2019
- Digital NEST announces matching grant, double your impact – November 14, 2019
- UC Santa Cruz collaborates on $14M project to advance cryptographic computing technologies – November 14, 2019
- SapientX adds 35 New Languages to its Digital Assistant Software – November 14, 2019
- Q&A: Andrea Chow, Ontera SVP of Engineering, talks about her journey from the defense industry to biotech – November 1, 2019
News: October 2019
- Q&A: CEO Murielle Thinard-McLane talks about Ontera’s agtech plans – October 31, 2019
- Boosting diversity, inclusion, and representation in science journalism – October 30, 2019
- Pediatric cancer study shows usefulness of gene expression analysis – October 30, 2019
- Crowd Machine Appoints COO James Hanley to CEO Position – October 30, 2019
- NextSpace Santa Cruz a Beacon of Light During PG&E Power Outages – October 30, 2019
- UCSC Entrepreneurs Supported by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute – October 29, 2019
- Watch: Chamber honors Looker’s Frank Bien and Lloyd Tabb as “Men of the Year” – October 29, 2019
- Fly Longer, Lift More, and Fight Wildfires – October 24, 2019
- How Cabrillo College Students are Becoming (and Growing) the Next Generation of Cyber Security Professionals – October 24, 2019
- Salinas City Council approves first phase of municipal fiber network – October 22, 2019
- Cruzio Celebrates 30 Years of Geekdom – October 24, 2019
- Are we there yet? Karen Miga on the Next Era of Genomics – October 22, 2019
- Six Companies Demystify Tech – October 22, 2019
- Google’s $2.6 Billion Looker Deal Said to Get Closer DOJ Review – October 14, 2019
- Viagra shows promise for use in bone marrow transplants – October 11, 2019
- The robots of our future are coming—but they may not be what we think – October 11, 2019
- Paystand announces Advisory Council with some legendary fintech pioneers and founders – October 10, 2019
- Amazon speaks out on minimum wage, climate change, diversity and inclusion, LGBTQ+, immigration, and more – October 10, 2019
- Eighteen entrepreneurs pitch to active investors at Start-up Investment and Community Capital Expo – October 10, 2019
- The Courage of the Early-Stage Entrepreneur – October 10, 2019
- $8.5 million gift supports UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute – October 8, 2019
- Poly integrates Voyager headsets with Amazon Alexa and Tile – October 2, 2019
- MBEP Announces Agenda and Speakers for 5th Annual State of the Region – October 2, 2019
- Santa Cruz 8th Grader Takes on Inequality at Science Fairs – October 2, 2019
- Crowd Machine Innovation Continues to Open Doors for New Business – October 2, 2019
- Hope for California’s net neutrality law, as court upholds repeal of federal rules – October 2, 2019
- Startup Sandbox Supports Emerging Bioscience Companies – October 2, 2019
News: September 2019
- 30 Years After The Loma Prieta Earthquake: Tech and Emergency Services in the County of Santa Cruz – September 30, 2019
- Startup Sandbox Graduates First Class of Innovators – September 30, 2019
- Forbes is talking about “The Department Of Customer Love” – September 30, 2019
- Steve Blum: Salinas, AT&T sign master pole license agreement with small cell design standards and $750 annual rent, sorta – September 30, 2019
- Built from scratch: Improving vaccines with molecular insights – September 28, 2019
- WGCIT Update: AgTech Startup Successes – September 27, 2019
- Global Climate Strike and how to achieve your Science-Based Targets – September 27, 2019
- Jack Baskin at 100 – September 26, 2019
- What motivates sellers? Here’s what SellHound learned – September 25, 2019
- NIH funds new centers to expand and diversify the human reference genome – September 24, 2019
- CITRIS launches Tech for Social Good program at UCSC – September 19, 2019
- Scientist creates a ‘ground-breaking’ technique to crack cold cases by extracting DNA from stray strands of HAIR without a root left behind at crime scenes by killers and victims – September 19, 2019
- Long Before ‘Netflix and Chill,’ He Was the Netflix C.E.O. – September 19, 2019
- Why I Waited Sixteen Years to Write My Book About Netflix – September 19, 2019
- Netflix’s first CEO talks about Reed Hastings, negotiating tactics and his dislike of business plans – September 18, 2019
- Steve Blum: California’s consumer data privacy law survives lobbyist blitz, more or less intact – September 18, 2019
- Steve Blum: AT&T’s backdoor deregulation bill runs out of room, while California lawmakers tweak telecoms policy – September 18, 2019
- Poly Introduces the Next Generation of Savi Wireless Headsets – September 18, 2019
- October 2 tech meetup: Drako, Modarri, Marc Randolph, and more – September 17, 2019
- Startup Investment and Community Capital Expo is September 27 in Seaside – September 17, 2019
- Q&A: Marc Randolph talks about Santa Cruz, Reed Hastings, and the birth of Netflix – September 17, 2019
- Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair – September 16, 2019
- Jane Technologies doubles down on Santa Cruz (and what happens next after securing $21M in Series B funding) – September 12, 2019
- Here’s one analyst’s deep dive into the Plantronics & Polycom deal – September 12, 2019
- Bud Colligan Outlines Strategy to Enhance State’s Global Competitiveness – September 12, 2019
- County of Santa Cruz offers ePlan training and support – September 10, 2019
- Technology Showcase & Acquisition of Capital Seminar for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers – September 10, 2019
- Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP), Annieglass, and California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) partner to host Made in Monterey Bay manufacturing event – September 10, 2019
- SupplyShift to host Summit on Responsible Supply Chains – September 10, 2019
- New iPhone app designed to help children learn to read – September 5, 2019
- Data Storytelling in Action: Using Data to Guide your Fantasy Football Draft Strategy (Part II) – September 5, 2019
- Do You Want to Screw Over Your ISP? – September 5, 2019
- Plantronics/Poly announces new BackBeat PRO 5100, BackBeat FIT 3200/3150/6100 wireless options – September 4, 2019
- UCSC’s Genomics Institute settles into new Delaware Avenue headquarters – September 3, 2019
- Indexical & Design by Cosmic announce a series of Digital Alchemy Talks – September 3, 2019
- NEST Flight: Connecting College Students to Careers – September 3, 2019
News: August 2019
- Listen: No Such Thing: From an Unlikely Zipcode – August 29, 2019
- How To Identify & Retain Fantastic Talent with Kelli Dragovich Of Looker – August 29, 2019
- CBL Markets and Xpansiv Merge to Create XCHG, the World’s First Data-Driven Commodity Marketplace – August 29, 2019
- Watch: Cabrillo College Fab Lab & Makerspace: Innovating for Good in Our Community – August 27, 2019
- Cabrillo Etech Students Are Building Low-Cost, Green Homes to Address the State’s Affordable Housing Crisis – August 27, 2019
- 200 Farmers, 700 Students Advance Progress on Food Safety Tech at AgTechx Event – August 27, 2019
- Seagate, UC Santa Cruz collaboration poised to accelerate genomics data analysis – August 27, 2019
- How Senior Design Projects Create Leaders (Summary, part 5 of 5) – August 27, 2019
- Without A Trace (Part 4 of 5 in How Senior Design Projects Create Leaders) – August 27, 2019
- SlugSat (Part 3 of 5 in How Senior Design Projects Create Leaders) – August 27, 2019
- Optofluidic chip with nanopore ‘smart gate’ developed for single molecule analysis – August 22, 2019
- Can Startup Sandbox Make Santa Cruz a Biotech Hub? – August 21, 2019
- Fellow TV Addicts (Part 2 of 5 in How Senior Design Projects Create Leaders) – August 20, 2019
- UpVoice (Part 1 of 5 in How Senior Design Projects Create Leaders) – August 20, 2019
- Dovetail Genomics Launches Omni-C Technology – August 20, 2019
- Startup Investment & Community Capital Expo returns Sept 27 – August 20, 2019
- Are the arts at the center of software’s evolution? – August 20, 2019
- Women Are Big Part of AgTech Generation Innovation – August 20, 2019
- Tempur Sealy and Fullpower Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver Smarter Sleep Experiences Through AI-Powered Technology – August 20, 2019
- 5 Questions with Keri Waters, Resideo’s Vice President and General Manager of Water – August 15, 2019
- UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year – August 14, 2019
- Headsets. Testing. Designing. Audio. Productivity. – August 14, 2019
- When I first heard about Plantronics at a career fair, I thought that it was either about plants or planets – August 14, 2019
- My Engineering Internship at Poly: Drones, Code, and Headsets! – August 14, 2019
- Santa Cruz Works New Tech MeetUp: Get Biotech 2019 – August 13, 2019
- Crowd Machine Releases Crowd Machine GO – August 13, 2019
- Pajaro Valley Unified School District in Partnership with Khan Academy and NWEA to Accelerate Student Learning – August 13, 2019
- A Collective Impact: Interns of Looker – August 9, 2019
- The compelling mathematical challenge of the three-body problem – August 8, 2019
- MBEP Welcomes Three New Board Members – August 8, 2019
- Poly Studio is now certified by Zoom – August 7, 2019
- Local startups looking for seed, series A funding could qualify for Opportunity Zone funding – August 7, 2019
- BASF and Ontera collaborate on precision diagnostics to support farmers with in-field disease monitoring – August 7, 2019
- Big data for conservation: Conservation biologists find new applications for AI tools – August 7, 2019
- Paystand Pioneers Assurety-as-a-Service With Application-Ready Blockchain API – August 1, 2019
- Watch: 2019 Monterey Bay DART Symposium Highlights Reel – August 1, 2019
- 12 New Satellite Deskworks Features to Streamline Your Coworking Operations – August 1, 2019
- Santa Cruz Works announces changes to board – August 1, 2019
News: July 2019
- Disrupting the Payments Industry (In a Good Way) – July 31, 2019
- SellHound App Launches to Deliver One-Tap Selling on Popular Secondhand Marketplaces – July 31, 2019
- New tech promises California farmers to harvest more spinach, reducing labor costs – July 31, 2019
- St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant funds Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative – July 31, 2019
- Why my best ideas really do come to me in the shower – July 25, 2019
- Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good: Jacob Martinez, Digital NEST – July 23, 2019
- Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good: Alex Gershenson, SupplyShift – July 23, 2019
- Breakthrough Listen launches new optical search with VERITAS Telescope Array – July 23, 2019
- Patrick Reilly on Intellectual Property: The Fuel of Creativity – July 23, 2019
- The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) selects SupplyShift as its new partner and reporting platform – July 23, 2019
- Building #OpenIndustry: The Story Behind Paystand’s New Logo – July 18, 2019
- Ontera Welcomes Dr. J. Wallace Parce to Its Advisory Board – July 17, 2019
- Forbes on CannaTech and Jane Tech’s $21M – July 16, 2019
- A Seat at the Table: My Time as a Looker Intern – July 16, 2019
- Poly celebrates its role in Apollo 11’s launch to the moon – July 16, 2019
- Center for Digital Government Recognizes Santa Cruz County’s Digital Practices – July 16, 2019
- Monterey’s NPS deploys satellite aboard SpaceX – July 16, 2019
- Jane Technologies, Inc. Announces $21M in Series B Funding – July 16, 2019
- It was 1969. The Mission was Apollo 11. – July 11, 2019
- AgTech Insight and Verdant Form Strategic Alliance – July 11, 2019
- #CODE831: Why doesn’t every student get this opportunity? – July 9, 2019
- The Four Pillars of Modern B2B Payments – July 9, 2019
- Why a Visualization is Worth a Thousand Data Points – July 9, 2019
- Onewheel Riders Build Community While Floating Through the Region’s Streets – July 9, 2019
- Crowd Machine Celebrates Growth of Crowd Academy with New Enhancements – July 9, 2019
- New SellHound app is ready for download – July 8, 2019
- Voice of the Valley: John Skardon on Tailwater Systems – July 3, 2019
- Western Growers Leadership in AgTech Lauded During Forbes Summit – July 3, 2019
- The Inside Story of How This Startup Turned a 216-Word Pitch Email into a $2.6 Billion Acquisition – July 2, 2019
- Aptos High School Robotics Team Wins International Competition – July 2, 2019
News: June 2019
- AGTools showcases content management data solutions for agriculture at Forbes AgTech – June 30, 2019
- Q&A: Life science startup, Claret Bio, comes out of stealth mode – June 27, 2019
- The Future Of Food Needs To Focus On Bringing Broadband To Rural Communities – June 27, 2019
- Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce and Santa Cruz Works form strategic partnership – June 27, 2019
- Blockchain for Responsible Sourcing – Where Does It Fit? – June 25, 2019
- It was no accident that Netflix started in Santa Cruz – June 25, 2019
- Gifts accelerate research, from the galactic to the microscopic – June 25, 2019
- Monterey Bay Drone, Automation and Robotics Technology (DART) Symposium launches – June 25, 2019
- Paystand Hires Former Tipalti Chief Revenue Officer to Lead Sales – June 21, 2019
- Crowd Machine Now Powered by Amazon Web Services – June 20, 2019
- July 10 Tech Meetup has a hot lineup – June 20, 2019
- Cabrillo College Wins NASA Swarmathon – June 19, 2019
- Q&A: Why this local bank CEO cares about local tech – June 18, 2019
- Words of wisdom from Steve Blank, UCSC commencement speaker, June 2019 – June 18, 2019
- The Brains Behind the Company, Looker, that Google Acquired for $2.6B – June 18, 2019
- Research-Practice Partnerships: Sharing Data Where It Matters – June 18, 2019
- Ontera Awarded ~$1M Contract from IARPA for Zika Genotyping Test – June 18, 2019
- Looker/Google in the news beyond Santa Cruz – June 11, 2019
- More podcasts from Voices of the (Salinas) Valley – June 11, 2019
- What the Internet is Doing with Your Data – June 11, 2019
- Sandra Faber is a genealogist of the cosmic kind – June 11, 2019
- Code Naturally: Rooted in Santa Cruz schools, coding education company ready to grow – June 11, 2019
- Poly G7500 Delivers All-in-One Content and Video Conferencing Solution for Limitless Potential to Collaborate – June 11, 2019
- Frank Bien: Looker to Join Google Cloud – June 6, 2019
- Google to acquire Looker for $2.6 Billion – June 6, 2019
- DNA Testing 2.0: The Near Future of Population Genomics – June 6, 2019
- Spotlight on Amy Wu – June 6, 2019
- Will the last BI vendor please turn out the lights – June 6, 2019
- Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, To Headline Fifth-Annual Forbes AgTech Summit In Salinas – June 6, 2019
- Sandy Skees Joins Porter Novelli To Make Purpose Core Part Of Tech Practice – June 4, 2019
- I got interviewed by National Geographic! – June 4, 2019
- Riding the next wave, No Code Solutions from Crowd Machine – June 4, 2019
News: May 2019
- IDEA Hub 2019 Pitch for Social and Creative Enterprise to be held June 5 at Poly – May 28, 2019
- Startup Sandbox to coordinate UCSC biotech graduate student intern program
– May 28, 2019 - SellHound is featured in list of recent Founder Institute startup successes – May 28, 2019
- Conversion Funnel: How to Build, Analyze & Optimize – May 28, 2019
- Western Growers Offers List of Agtech Startups – May 28, 2019
- Watch: Studying robotic and autonomous vehicle systems in the presence of uncertainty – May 28, 2019
- Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Tech: Why I Joined Looker – May 28, 2019
- Cruzio Proposes Mid-County Fiber Internet Construction – May 28, 2019
- Middlebury Institute Student Wins Startup Challenge Monterey Bay’s Student Division – May 21, 2019
- Musician’s BASS for the Win! – May 21, 2019
- Startup Challenge Monterey Bay awards $60,000 in prize money to winners – May 21, 2019
- UCSC engineers to participate in research center on autonomous systems – May 21, 2019
- Prof. Lise Getoor honored with 5th annual Women in Science and Engineering Award – May 21, 2019
- Looker named one of best big data companies and CEOs to work for in 2019 – May 21, 2019
- Recap: MBEP’s 2019 Regional Economic Summit – May 21, 2019
- Cabrillo Offers a Free Summer Camp for Students to Spark Early Interest in Technology – May 21, 2019
- Startup Sandbox Announces Strategic Partnership with Carr & Ferrell LLP – May 21, 2019
- Mohamed Abousalem to become SJSU’s first Vice President for Research and Innovation – May 21, 2019
- Baskin Engineering Announces Three New Graduate Programs – May 15, 2019
- UCSC Games Showcase in June celebrates undergraduate and graduate game design – May 15, 2019
- Watch: Collaboration supports first-ever Spanish Family Code Nights – May 14, 2019
- Ancient galaxies reveal new clues about a cosmic transformation – May 14, 2019
- Food Autonomy For Santa Cruz — The Aeroasis Mission – May 14, 2019
- Three Tips to Succeed in a Summer Internship – May 14, 2019
- How this one-wheeled skateboard lets riders cruise without crashing – May 14, 2019
- Jenny Reardon participates in Vatican workshop on personalized medicine – May 14, 2019
- Aeroasis Launching from Startup Sandbox to Become Independent Company – May 9, 2019
- Two Pore Guys Rebranded as Ontera Under New Leadership to Bring Next-Generation Molecular Diagnostics to the Field and Point of Use – May 9, 2019
- “Get Hired” returns June 5 – May 8, 2019
- To fully automate B2B payments, PayStand emphasizes receivables – May 8, 2019
- Murj Announces the Future of Cardiac Device Analytics – May 8, 2019
- Sara Isenberg on “Why I do what I do” (Titans of Tech 2019) – May 7, 2019
- Poly Appoints New Executive VP of Strategy – May 7, 2019
- UC Santa Cruz microscope expert develops powerful new tools for biologists – May 7, 2019
- Monterey Bay Aquarium set to open educational wonderland – May 7, 2019
- Agencies launch Monterey Bay Electric Vehicle Incentive Program – May 7, 2019
- Satellite Deskworks Awarded Patent for its Workspace Software – May 2, 2019
- Doug Erickson takes helm of Santa Cruz Works – May 1, 2019
News: April 2019
- UCSC Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) to host 10th Anniversary Gala in May – April 30, 2019
- The “Knucklehead of Silicon Valley” (actually from Santa Cruz) talks about his forthcoming book – April 30, 2019
- Data of Thrones: Game of Thrones Gender Analysis for Death, Sex, & Dialogue – April 30, 2019
- UCSC ranks second in Top 25 Public Game Design Colleges in US – April 30, 2019
- Forbes AgTech Summit comes to Salinas in June – April 30, 2019
- UCSC hosts summer program on machine learning in astronomy – April 30, 2019
- United Way Monterey County Co-Hosts Early Care + Education Hackathon – April 30, 2019
- Community TV Introduces RSVP™ — “Really Simple Video Place” – April 30, 2019
- Looker Named one of the 50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Computing Companies To Work For – April 25, 2019
- Startup Challenge celebrates 10th anniversary on May 10 – April 25, 2019
- So what was it like to appear on appears on ‘Project Runway’ episode focused on female video game characters? – April 25, 2019
- Trebor Scholz to discuss his book Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy at CSUMB’s President Speaker Series – April 24, 2019
- Is an E-Bike in your Future? – April 23, 2019
- Steve Benz, president, Genomics division of NantOmics, honored by UCSC – April 23, 2019
- Cruzio Powers the Tech-Savvy Heart of Santa Cruz County with a Simplified, Future-Proof Network Built on Calix AXOS – April 23, 2019
- Western Growers’ new directory to serve as marketplace for agtech startups – April 23, 2019
- Hatching Techies – April 23, 2019
- Monterey Bay DART (Drone, Automation, Robotics Technology) Initiative Gains Momentum – April 23, 2019
- Cabrillo Launches Landed – April 23, 2019
- YaDoggie shutting down kibble subscription service – April 18, 2019
- Santa Cruz New Tech, May 1, Ubertrends author Michael Tchong, Oceans360, more – April 18, 2019
- Murj, digital healthcare company, announces Certified Service Partners Program – April 18, 2019
- CEO Joe Burton talks about Poly at Enterprise Connect 2019 – April 16, 2019
- Rebrand pays homage to Plantronics history – April 16, 2019
- Game Developer Robin Hunicke to Appear on ‘Project Runway’ – April 16, 2019
- Meet Chrissy Meyer, Root Ventures, making a bet on the founders – April 16, 2019
- How to Digitize the Enterprise Cash Cycle, Part 3: Reconciliation – April 16, 2019
- U.S. house passes net neutrality bill but leaves the devil in the details and its fate to the senate – April 16, 2019
- MBEP Announces Full Program and Public-Private Partnership Award Recipients for 5th Annual Regional Economic Summit – April 16, 2019
- PayStand Announces Automated Receivables Product to Streamline Enterprise Payments and Collections for Finance Professionals – April 10, 2019
- TechRaising announces Entrepreneurship Clinics – April 9, 2019
- ETR and YTH Announce Merger to Further Innovation in Health Equity – April 9, 2019
- NSF extends funding for the Center for Research in Storage Systems five more years – April 9, 2019
- Broadband magazine profiles Cruzio fiber to the home (FTTH) – April 9, 2019
- Diverse Voices speaker series will offer insight into tech career success – April 9, 2019
- Looker Expands the Power of Its Data Platform with Sales Analytics Application and Powerful Third-Party Developer Features – April 9, 2019
- 82% Micro Business Summit returns on May 3 – April 9, 2019
- Steve Blum: Cities have broad authority over cell site design, location, California Supreme Court rules – April 9, 2019
- Poly CMO on rebranding one of Silicon Valley’s oldest tech companies – April 4, 2019
- Congrats on that thing you won?!?? – April 4, 2019
- Summit at Hartnell College Highlights Commercially Relevant AgTech – April 2, 2019
- Accounts Receivable Automation with PayStand Drives Capital Efficiency and Lowers Costs for Elenteny Imports – April 2, 2019
- UC IGIS to host DroneCamp 2019 in Monterey – April 2, 2019
- Cannabis industry’s first commodity trading desk introduced in Salinas – April 2, 2019
- 7 Myths Women Who Cowork is Busting – April 2, 2019
- Bud Colligan has been appointed Senior Advisor for International Affairs and Trade in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development – April 2, 2019
- SBDC Announces New Director – April 2, 2019
News: March 2019
- Chris Miller of Cloud Brigade is first victor to advance in AWS DeepRacer Championship – March 28, 2019
- Keri Waters: The Exit – March 28, 2019
- Resideo Acquires Buoy Labs – March 27, 2019
- Blix Bikes hosts Packa Cargo eBike launch party – March 27, 2019
- Tricia Timm guides Looker through its legal obligations as it expands and evolves – March 26, 2019
- Introducing Bontrager WaveCel: Revolutionary Helmet Technology – March 26, 2019
- How to engage the most vulnerable in your supply chain – March 26, 2019
- Human-computer interaction experts join Baskin Engineering – March 26, 2019
- AgTech Insight Joins Forces with International Agriculture Consulting Group to Bring Technology and Innovation to India’s Farmers – March 26, 2019
- Why NextSpace Powered by Pacific Workplaces is the Future of Coworking – March 26, 2019
- Want your daughter to code? Looker & Code Naturally are making it happen. – March 21, 2019
- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Google exec Dennis Troper share tips and tales at UCSC visit – March 19, 2019
- New Facebook Group Launched for Santa Cruz Women in Tech — How it Started and Why it Matters – March 19, 2019
- Forbes AgTech Summit to be held again in Salinas in June – March 19, 2019
- Poly announces VVX X50 Obi phones are first IP phones certified for Google Voice – March 19, 2019
- PayStand on how to digitize the enterprise cash cycle (part 2: Payments) – March 19, 2019
- JUMP Bikes, Drones, IoT, Dark Matter, Elephant Seals, Albatrosses, Carbon Eaters – March 19, 2019
- Poly announces integration of Amazon Chime and Alexa for business with Polycom Trio and Amazon Alexa with Plantronics Voyager 4200 UC headsets – March 19, 2019
- Poly doubles down on native Microsoft Teams experience with new CCX business media phones – March 19, 2019
- Introducing Poly: Former Plantronics and Polycom Company Relaunched – March 18, 2019
- Smile Train partners with UCSC researchers on speech therapy game – March 14, 2019
- Introducing the Onewheel Pint, the lightest and most affordable Onewheel ever – March 12, 2019
- CSUMB: White Shark Genome Decoded – March 12, 2019
- Leila Takayama wins Google Research Award for robot training – March 12, 2019
- Sunnier Days (Possibly) Ahead for Patenting Software-Enabled Inventions – March 12, 2019
- Plantronics Appoints New Chief Financial Officer – March 12, 2019
- PayStand: Vegas Here We Come For SuiteWorld 2019 – March 12, 2019
- Women in Tech Fire Up in Santa Cruz – March 9, 2019
- Veteran teacher shows how achievement gaps in STEM classes can be eliminated – March 7, 2019
- Five Common Myths About PredPol – March 6, 2019
- Why You Need to Say ‘Yes’ to Be Lucky w/ Craig Vachon, Chowdahead Growth Fund – March 5, 2019
- CPUC seeks volunteers for internet performance study – March 5, 2019
- Students don science hats for Science & Engineering Fair – March 5, 2019
- Q&A: Merging art & tech with Idea Fab Labs co-founder Jordan Layman – March 5, 2019
- Cabrillo to hold grand opening for newly renamed Horticulture and Agriculture Technology Center – March 5, 2019
- 8 Tips for Creating a Digital Badging System: Recognize, Encourage and Affirm Youth Who Build Tech Skills – March 5, 2019
- UC Santa Cruz will invest nearly $6M in its research tools this academic year – March 5, 2019
- SellHound launches eBay version of their posting app – March 1, 2019
News: February 2019
- Genomics Institute launches brain research project – February 28, 2019
- Q&A: Cornell Woodson talks about his new DEI leadership role at Looker – February 26, 2019
- Who Owns Your DNA? – February 26, 2019
- Code Naturally to hold last Spring Break Code Camp and then transition future focus – February 26, 2019
- Women Leaders in Spotlight at Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit – February 26, 2019
- Watch: Steve Benz, president of genomics for NantOmics, describes defending his Ph.D. thesis at UCSC as one of the most powerful moments of his life – February 26, 2019
- Marina Airport looks to take off with drones – February 26, 2019
- Ceremony honors inaugural holder of Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics – February 26, 2019
- UC Santa Cruz launches the country’s first graduate program in serious games – February 19, 2019
- Tech titan returns to campus, shares tales of survival – February 19, 2019
- March tech meetup: “Launch 2019” with Wise Guy, Inboard, SellHound – February 19, 2019
- What does patent activity in the Monterey Bay area look like? – February 19, 2019
- Surfing, Sailing, & Business Payments in the Digital Age – February 19, 2019
- The Future of Voice & AI: Alexa Mobile Team presents Tech Talk on March 5 – February 19, 2019
- Paying it Forward: Cabrillo College Team Helps Middle School, High School, and Community College Students Learn the Ropes of Cybersecurity at Regional Competition – February 14, 2019
- Seeking judges for annual SC County Science & Engineering Fair to be held at Plantronics – February 13, 2019
- For Second Consecutive Year, Looker is Recognized by Gartner – February 13, 2019
- Getting Started with ARKit on iOS – February 12, 2019
- Keenan Rice, VP of Global Alliances and Emerging Markets at Looker, Recognized as 2019 CRN Channel Chief – February 12, 2019
- Three Trends Transforming AgTech – February 12, 2019
- Announcing Startup Challenge Monterey Bay 2019 – February 12, 2019
- Watch: Joby Aviation – Inventing the Future of Air Taxis – February 12, 2019
- Dark Fiber Network within City of Salinas – February 12, 2019
- Passive Cleaner Boat Bot could keep microplastics out of oceans – February 7, 2019
- Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production – February 7, 2019
- Local Roots: Julia Hartz Founded Eventbrite With Her Fiancé. Then She Took His Job. – February 5, 2019
- MaNGA data release includes detailed maps of thousands of nearby galaxies – February 5, 2019
- Western Digital, Genomics Institute, Baskin School of Engineering Collaborate to Accelerate Genomics Sequencing – February 5, 2019
- Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good: Bud Colligan – February 5, 2019
- AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Puts the Spotlight on Digital NEST – February 5, 2019
- Get Real About Being a Woman in Tech at March 5 Panel Event – February 5, 2019
- How Design Empathy Impacts the Development Process – February 5, 2019
News: January 2019
- What is the Grower Trial Network and why is it important? – January 31, 2019
- IBM to Present on Blockchain for Food Safety at Ag Tech Summit – January 31, 2019
- Monterey Bay Drone, Automation and Robotics technology (DART) initiative unites industry, academia, government – January 29, 2019
- We almost got kicked out of CES for this… – January 29, 2019
- SC New Tech Meetup to showcase CruzHacks 2019 Top Projects – January 29, 2019
- Plantronics Aims to Upgrade Huddle Rooms to Business Class with Polycom Studio – January 29, 2019
- CruzHacks has established its credibility inside and outside of Santa Cruz – January 29, 2019
- My Surprise Career With Diversity And Inclusion In The Tech Industry – January 23, 2019
- SupplyShift & Ulula announce first-of-its-kind partnership – January 23, 2019
- Q&A: Beau Wilder, VP, Innovation Waves and New Products at Plantronics – January 22, 2019
- 2018 at Cruzio: gigabit fiber, upgraded email, and Watsonville wifi – January 22, 2019
- Looker Earns Two Spots on G2 Crowd “Best Software Awards 2019” – January 22, 2019
- UCSC creates the state’s first graduate program in Serious Games – January 22, 2019
- PayStand on how to digitize the enterprise cash cycle (part 1: invoicing) – January 22, 2019
- ProductOps reports on supporting, mentoring, judging at CruzHacks 2019 – January 22, 2019
- Buoy makes the (TV) news in USAA pilot program – January 16, 2019
- Plantronics Launches New Calisto Portable USB Speakerphones – January 16, 2019
- #MenteeGoals Prepping for a mentoring relationship – January 15, 2019
- Western Growers Tech Incubator Unveils New AgTech Initiatives during 3-Year Anniversary – January 15, 2019
- Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit offers competitive insights – January 15, 2019
- Monterey Bay DART Initiative builds momentum – January 15, 2019
- PredPol celebrates seventh anniversary – January 15, 2019
- Chris Neklason: Getting the Newspaper I Want – January 15, 2019
- Speakers announced for Bang Bang Con West 2019 – January 15, 2019
- STEM Education and Youth Who are Disabled: We’re Overdue for Inclusivity – January 10, 2019
- Judges and mentors still wanted for UCSC’s CruzHacks 2019 – January 10, 2019
- PitchHub: A startup at the intersection of streaming video and commerce – January 8, 2019
- Community invited to UCSC talk on Data and Democracy – January 8, 2019
- Looker: Surprising and Innovative Data Stories of 2018 – January 8, 2019
- Plantronics Introduces Waterfalls to Boost Productivity – January 8, 2019
- Watch: The reason why Serious Games are so powerful – January 8, 2019
- New year but old questions for technology and telecoms policymakers – January 3, 2019
- Five consumer technology challenges will decide who owns the future – January 3, 2019
News: December 2018
- Luna: Moondust Garden by @Funomena for Magic Leap – December 27, 2018
- Women of the C-Suite: “It Takes a Team to Fight Burnout” with Looker CMO, Jennifer Grant – December 27, 2018
- Innovative Women in Agtech Play Pivotal Role in Salinas Valley – December 20, 2018
- Plantronics Cloud Solutions Finish Strong in 2018 for Customers and Partners – December 20, 2018
- Techstars Startup Weekend, in partnership with Google for Startups, returns to CSUMB in January – December 20, 2018
- Plantronics Hires Former Cisco Exec to Lead Global Systems Team – December 20, 2018
- SCTB Highlights of 2018 – December 13, 2018
- CruzHacks + Tech4Good = Social Good Partnership – December 13, 2018
- 3rd Annual Titans of Tech announces speakers for January 17 event – December 13, 2018
- Inboard: Finding Portlandia – December 11, 2018
- Forbes: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M – December 11, 2018
- Professor Lise Getoor will give talk on Responsible Data Science at 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture – December 11, 2018
- Jane Tech and CanPay partner to bring online payments to customers in the cannabis marketplace – December 11, 2018
- Ocean Mist Farms selects Zest Fresh to automate data collection – December 11, 2018
- After a dozen years and 600 summer STEM internships, NPS looks back at its impact along the way – December 6, 2018
- Looker Closes Series E Financing Round of $103 Million – December 6, 2018
- Women on Top in Tech – Suzanne Wouk, CEO and co-founder of SellHound – December 5, 2018
- Getting the Most out of Google Ad Grants for Nonprofits – December 4, 2018
- ‘Going Digital’ Means More Than Just Accepting Credit Cards – December 4, 2018
- You Can’t ‘Contract Away’ Supply Chain Problems – December 4, 2018
- Cabrillo College launches Sustainable Agriculture Technology degree – December 4, 2018
- Urban or rural, the need for broadband speed is the same for all in the Monterey Bay region – December 3, 2018
- Drone Hub is growing in Monterey Bay region – December 3, 2018
News: November 2018
- Here’s the lineup for December 5 Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup – November 27, 2018
- Opinion: An innovative idea for California’s economy: a tech dividend – November 27, 2018
- Watch: Adam Savage Builds a Onewheel Electric Skateboard – November 27, 2018
- TechCrunch: Inboard opens general availability of its premium electric scooter – November 27, 2018
- Case Study: NOVA software platform designed/developed by productOps to increase student success rates – November 27, 2018
- Code Naturally Joins Local Schools for Hour of Code – November 27, 2018
- Two Pore Guys Receives $2.8M Grant to Develop Sensitive, Low-Cost Molecular Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis – November 27, 2018
- Plantronics Confirms No Ongoing Discussions with Logitech – November 26, 2018
- Plantronics Opens the Door for ITSP Partners with New VVX x50 Series Obi Edition Phones – November 15, 2018
- Call for speakers! Two-day celebration of joy, excitement, surprise of computing, coming to Santa Cruz in February. – November 15, 2018
- Polycom/Plantronics Releases Streamlined Video Conferencing Strategy – November 14, 2018
- Startup Sandbox to honor Founders Circle members – November 13, 2018
- Behind The Glider: Parts 1 & 2 – November 13/15, 2018
- 3D Printed Graphene Aerogel Enhances Supercapacitor Ability – November 13, 2018
- Salinas Education Programs Shaping AgTech Innovators of Tomorrow – November 13, 2018
- Women: Why aren’t there more of us in the tech industry? – November 11, 2018
- MBEP Announces Agenda and Speakers for 4th Annual State of the Region – November 8, 2018
- Student-run hackathon at UCSC lies at the intersection of tech and diversity – November 6, 2018
- Runner3 – Now with more FLAVORS! – November 6, 2018
- We’re making a Bubsy game! No, seriously! – November 6, 2018
- Team creates Stumpjumper videogame for Specialized bicycle company – November 6, 2018
- X2Engine Releases X2CRM Enterprise Ver 7.0 – November 6, 2018
- Local health center raises funds to match $100K challenge grant from Looker CEO – November 3, 2018
News: October 2018
- SupplyShift Delivers Mobile Support for Remote Supplier Data Collection – October 31, 2018
- PVUSD Preparing to Accelerate Students into Regional Industries through CTE Pathways – October 31, 2018
- Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, UCSC alumna – October 30, 2018
- Voice and Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles – October 30, 2018
- Paper checks are on the decline in the B2B payments space – October 30, 2018
- Steve Blum: California’s net neutrality law won’t take effect in January, if it ever does – October 30, 2018
- PayStand Releases SuiteApp Integration To Extend Best-In-Class Payment Functionality Within NetSuite – October 25, 2018
- NIH grant funds development of a wayfinding app for the blind – October 25, 2018
- Future Motion (Onewheel) Moves into New Headquarters, Adds 60K Square Feet of Room to Grow – October 25, 2018
- Four Tech Trends Salinas AgTech Startups are Getting Behind – October 24, 2018
- Rivetz: Introducing the Dual Roots of Trust – October 23, 2018
- Hartnell Students are Building the Future – October 23, 2018
- Visionary tech pioneer Jaron Lanier on “How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It.” – October 23, 2018
- Startup Stories — I Heart Jane <3 CEO Socrates Rosenfeld – October 23, 2018
- Cruzio and One Wheel/Future Motion – High Tech in Surf City – October 23, 2018
- Startup Investment and Community Capital Expo return Oct 30 – October 22, 2018
- PayStand Expands Operations to Mexico With New Office – October 18, 2018
- 3D-printed supercapacitor electrode breaks records in lab tests – October 18, 2018
- Looker Pledges 1% – October 16, 2018
- Partnership Bolsters Childhood Cancer Research – October 16, 2018
- NSF funds UC Santa Cruz development of multifocus structured illumination microscope – October 16, 2018
- Q&A: Catelyn Orsini on creating innovative technology for Plantronics – October 16, 2018
- SapientX: Voice Enabled Artificial Intelligence for Cars and Consumer Products – October 16, 2018
- Monarch Media Wins eLearning Industry Award – October 16, 2018
- County of Santa Cruz invites residents to second Broadband Service Forum – October 10, 2018
- Looker Unveils Looker 6: The Modern Platform for Data – October 10, 2018
- Listen: 10 Year NextSpace Panel Celebration – October 9, 2018
- November Tech Meetup to Focus on Women in Tech – October 9, 2018
- My Internship Was Not What I Expected – October 9, 2018
- Western Growers Center for Innovation and Tech Celebrates Three Years – October 9, 2018
- Inboard’s smart new e-scooter is really going places – October 9, 2018
- Plantronics Launches New Headsets Addressing the Challenges of Today’s Open Office – October 9, 2018
- Showing your work in math and in data – October 4, 2018
- Sellhound receives more angel funding from two distinguished Silicon Valley investment groups – October 3, 2018
- Santa Cruz Fiber: The Best Connected Mobile Home Park in America
– October 2, 2018 - Court gives California three weeks to defend net neutrality law – October 2, 2018
- Brown signs SB 822 and establishes Californian net neutrality rules, Trump lawyers hit back – October 2, 2018
- ETR awarded ‘CS For All’ NSF Grant – Cabrillo College, Digital NEST, Pajaro Valley Unified School District to Receive Funding – October 2, 2018
- Zentrepreneur Symposium Series Launches in Partnership with UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Works – October 1, 2018
News: September 2018
- Nick Caldwell Joins Looker as Chief Product Officer – September 26, 2018
- Inboard: Behind The Flow — Part 3 (video series) – September 25, 2018
- RockstarFlipper interviews SellHound CEO – September 25, 2018
- Santa Cruz Fiber — What’s Next? – September 25, 2018
- Food Origins: Precision Ag Startup Puts Actionable Data into Hands of Growers – September 25, 2018
- The Farm of the Future: Agricultural Careers in Energy, Sustainability, and Technology. – September 25, 2018
- Plantronics introduces Elara, a new phone station for mobile-first workers – September 25, 2018
- Inboard Introduces World’s Most Advanced Electric Scooter – September 20, 2018
- Anja Hamilton joins Plantronics as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer – September 20, 2018
- NSF funds UCSC study of tech in agriculture – September 20, 2018
- Phase 1 of Santa Cruz Fiber Construction Has Been Completed – September 19, 2018
- SomaGenics strengthens its IP and technology position in small RNA analysis and biomarker discovery with new patent and publication – September 19, 2018
- Why Is Funding a Challenge for Women-Led Agtech Companies? – September 18, 2018
- Q&A: Jacob Martinez on building a talent pipeline with NEST Flight – September 18, 2018
- Looker Expands International Operations Into Japan – September 18, 2018
- Come celebrate NextSpace’s 10 Years of Coworking, Community, and Shenanigans – September 18, 2018
- Looker is Named to Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 List for Second Consecutive Year – September 13, 2018
- SupplyShift and Verisk Maplecroft Form Strategic Alliance – September 12, 2018
- Adyen selects Looker to help transform its business and drive growth – September 12, 2018
- Inboard: Behind the Flow – Part 2 (video series) – September 11, 2018
- The Importance of Apprenticeships in the New Economy – September 11, 2018
- Digital NEST’s New Plan to Link Watsonville, Silicon Valley – September 11, 2018
- An ambitious flying taxi startup is setting up shop at the Marina Municipal Airport – September 11, 2018
- NSF funds powerful new supercomputer for UCSC researchers – September 11, 2018
- SpoonRead Earns 2018 Academics’ Choice Award for Excellence – September 11, 2018
- County of Santa Cruz invites residents to a Broadband Service Forum – September 11, 2018
- UC Santa Cruz helps address massive data demands from Large Hadron Collider as part of $25 million NSF project – September 6, 2018
- Local drone company InspecTools acquired by PrecisionHawk – September 6, 2018
- Bob Cagle: The key ingredients of a successful product launch – September 5, 2018
- Looker Names Barbara Lawler Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer – September 5, 2018
- Watch: Global partnership could bring more AG tech to Salinas Valley – September 4, 2018
- AT&T, Comcast, Charter backed groups fight California net neutrality with lies and fear – September 4, 2018
- Students “veg out” on the physics of music – September 4, 2018
News: August 2018
- National Drive Electric Week’s Santa Cruz event is September 8 – August 30, 2018
- Fantasy Football: Using Data to Guide your Draft Strategy – August 28, 2018
- Central Coast growers support public-private partnership to solve real time problems in agriculture – August 28, 2018
- Inboard: Behind the Flow – August 28, 2018
- How to Create Community Norms in Your Coworking Space (and Why You Should) – August 28, 2018
- Hartnell College receives $1.5M federal funding meant to boost Latinos in STEM fields – August 28, 2018
- The Big Santa Cruz Pitch Fest is coming September 19 – August 23, 2018
- New IT leader drawn to UCSC campus to improve world – August 23, 2018
- Intern story: Finding a home in R&D – August 21, 2018
- Intern story: Technology that inspires optimism – August 21, 2018
- Watch: SellHound is “game changer for resellers” – August 21, 2018
- Edge Mobile Payments announces NFC ring and patent application filing – August 21, 2018
- City of Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College SBDC and California Manufacturing Technology Consulting
Partnering to Host Manufacturers Meetup – August 21, 2018 - Intern story: When you love computers but you love humans just as much – August 16, 2018
- Intern story: My misfit major created a perfect match with my summer internship at Looker – August 16, 2018
- CSUMB student falls into amazing summer research program at Carnegie Mellon – August 16, 2018
- CSUMB Selected to Host Architecture at Zero Competition in 2019 – August 16, 2018
- Empowering the Santa Cruz County Workforce With Apprentice Brigade – August 15, 2018
- Joby Aviation backs out of Davenport Cemex plant plans in favor of Marina airport – August 15, 2018
- Santa Cruz County Office for Economic Development debuts new website – August 15, 2018
- Santa Cruz Tech Beat’s Sara Isenberg Connects the Dots – August 15, 2018
- ‘I Heart Jane’ Offers Cannabis Ecommerce And ‘Jane Lanes’ – August 12, 2018
- Looker announces annual data conference as the company reaches 550 employees and 1,600 customers with 70% YoY revenue growth – August 12, 2018
- Why Women-Focused Coworking is on the Rise: a Conversation with Iris Kavanagh – August 12, 2018
- Riding Through London On Inboard M1 – August 12, 2018
- Salinas Launches Open Data Portal To Share Information and Boost Government Transparency – August 12, 2018
- Building an Innovation Hub: The Salinas AgTech Story – August 12, 2018
- Five Guys Serves Up Fresh Insights with Looker to Deliver Better Customer Experience – August 12, 2018
- Instant Pot teams up with YaDoggie so your pup can eat fresh food – August 12, 2018
- Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Jeremy Almond, CEO of PayStand (Part 1) – August 12, 2018
- PayStand Integrates with Xero to Optimize B2B Payments – August 12, 2018
- Expanded SupplyShift Essentials™ Solutions Delivered – August 12, 2018
News: July 2018
- Looker Enhances Data Science Capability with Integration for Google BigQuery ML – July 25, 2018
- Water Tech Founder Buoys Santa Cruz Startup Scene – July 25, 2018
- Dovetail Genomics: The human genome is far more dynamic, complex, revealing, fascinating than ever imagined – July 24, 2018
- Five Years of Local Tech Storytelling: a Conversation with Santa Cruz Tech Beat Founder Sara Isenberg – July 24, 2018
- $50M THRIVE Business Park in Salinas aims to be the premier Ag Tech hub in the Western US – July 24, 2018
- Looker Receives 2017 Google Cloud Partner Award for Innovative Solution in Data & Analytics for the Second Straight Year – July 24, 2018
- Meetup features Cannabis Tech on August 1 – July 24, 2018
- PayStand Partners with Commerce.Innovated, Builds Out Blockchain-Based B2B Payments Network – July 19, 2018
- Greg’s List Redux (Job hunting? This is for you!) – July 19, 2018
- More “Voices of the Valley” from WGCIT in Salinas – July 19, 2018
- Comic-Con panel features UCSC games program director Michael John – July 19, 2018
- Tailwater: Removing Nitrates Affordably – July 17, 2018
- Full Spectrum Cannabis Brand Protection in a Time of (Federal) Prohibition – July 17, 2018
- Ten Things You Don’t Know about the Western Growers CIT – July 17, 2018
- County of Santa Cruz named 6th-most digital friendly county in the nation – July 12, 2018
- Salinas High grad aiming to break world speed record in solar-powered car – July 10, 2018
- Code Naturally and Cabrillo partner to produce Girls Code Camp – July 10, 2018
- SellHound lands first angel funding, receives warm reception at Silicon Valley debut – July 10, 2018
- SpoonRead Turns Reading into School Resources – July 10, 2018
- Looker’s Jen Grant: From actress to CMO – July 9, 2018
- Plantronics completes $2 billion Polycom acquisition – July 9, 2018
- Scenes from Forbes AgTech Summit 2018 – July 2, 2018
- Q&A: Augean Robotics wins THRIVE Innovation Award at Forbes Agtech Summit 2018 – July 2, 2018
News: June 2018
- Ganaz, GroGuru Wins $500,000 in Seed Funding to Develop Automation to Help Relieve Ag Labor Woes – June 27, 2018
- SVG Partners unveils plans for the THRIVE Business Park in Salinas and expanded THRIVE-X University Challenge and Accelerator Program – June 27, 2018
- Watch: Doug Erickson inspires students with venture into sailboard hardware supply business – June 26, 2018
- How to get your paws on SellHound’s posting app – June 26, 2018
- Five UCSC students present futuristic game at IndieCade Showcase – June 26, 2018
- Edge Mobile Payments announces the launch of its digital banking and cloud wallet platforms – June 26, 2018
- SVG Partners Announce Demo Day for THRIVE IV Accelerator Cohort – June 21, 2018
- Corporate-sponsored projects give engineering students valuable experience – June 21, 2018
- Listen: Jacob Martinez dishes on building the Digital NEST – June 19, 2018
- Taylor Farms Becomes Industry’s First Fresh Food Company Awarded TRUE Platinum Certification For Zero Waste – June 19, 2018
- Announcing the Looker User Guide – June 19, 2018
- Looker co-founder finds freedom and inspiration on his bike rides – June 19, 2018
- Leaves. And Collaborating – June 13, 2018
- Having Fun with Serverless – June 12, 2018
- Looker Maintains Rank as an Overall Leader in Annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study – June 12, 2018
- Speaker lineup announced for 4th annual Forbes AgTech Summit – June 12, 2018
- Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom – June 12, 2018
- PayStand Expands into Canada to Offer New Domestic Payments Infrastructure – June 12, 2018
- Four Tech Startups Chosen to Compete for $250K in Inaugural Ag Automation Competition – June 7, 2018
- Hartnell College MakerSpace: Creativity at Work – June 7, 2018
- Santa Cruz Tech Beat celebrates FIVE years! – June 7, 2018
- ‘Soundscaping’: Plantronics offers escape from office noise – June 5, 2018
- Inboard: Welcome to The Artist Series – June 5, 2018
- Watch: Best Electric Skateboard For Traveling – June 5, 2018
- Priority lanes the top priority for big ISPs, when net neutrality ends – June 5, 2018
- Genes found only in humans influence brain size – June 5, 2018
- Master’s degree approved for UCSC Science Communication Program – June 5, 2018
- Santa Cruz Works names interim Executive Director – June 4, 2018
News: May 2018
- 8 Successful Give-Back Models for Social Enterprises – May 31, 2018
- Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology launches ‘Voices of the Valleys’ – May 31, 2018
- Why centralized data access is key for your organization becoming ‘GDPR ready’ – May 31, 2018
- New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star – May 31, 2018
- Scotts Valley’s dfusion Receives $1.3 Million to Develop and Evaluate a Mobile App Promoting Sexual Health for Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men – May 30, 2018
- Net neutrality clears California senate on party line vote – May 30, 2018
- Should Startups Invest in Patents? – May 29, 2018
- PayStand is building technology that strengthens the fight against corruption – May 29, 2018
- EDGE closes on acquisition of comprehensive IP portfolio – May 25, 2018
- Watch: Clear the Fog — Peggy Dolgenos on Santa Cruz Fiber – May 24, 2018
- Cabrillo’s NETLAB+ Data Center Expands its Reach – May 24, 2018
- THRIVE IV accelerator cohort announced – May 24, 2018
- Looker and Girl Geek X join forces for June 7 event in SF – May 24, 2018
- Sammy Showcase features virtual reality and videogames from UCSC game design students – May 24, 2018
- Biologist Beth Shapiro selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator – May 23, 2018
- Transfer RNA research addresses a blind spot in understanding of human genes – May 22, 2018
- SC County broadband survey shows demand for internet service – May 22, 2018
- Watch: Suzanne Wouk from SellHound offers her thoughts on TechRaising – May 17, 2018
- Cruz Foam Made From Shrimp Shells Could Help Keep Beaches Clean – May 16, 2018
- Republicans jump ship to vote yes, but net neutrality is still sinking – May 16, 2018
- 2nd Annual Get Hired in Santa Cruz ($5 off for SCTB readers if you act fast) – May 16, 2018
- With net neutrality a national campaign issue, California lawmakers must carry the flag – May 16, 2018
- Helpfully, the FCC posts a guide to nasty network management – May 16, 2018
- Preventing plastic’s perils – May 15, 2018
- Startups get financial boost: Entrepreneurs pitch products at CSUMB competition – May 15, 2018
- The net neutrality doomsday clock is running again – May 11, 2018
- Do you know about bizzNEST at Digital NEST? – May 10, 2018
- Genomics Institute affiliate recognized for advancing diversity – May 10, 2018
- Looker CEO donates $100K to local health center – May 10, 2018
- Watch: OneWheel: A must have for every filmmaker – May 10, 2018
- Watch: Paystand CEO talks about the disruption of Wall Street, how blockchain is democratizing digital economy – May 10, 2018
- LitmusBox advances to final round of venture startup challenge – May 2, 2018
- Here are the deets for TechRaising 2018 – May 2, 2018
- Using Social Media to Predict Social Unrest – May 1, 2018
- Santa Cruz gets more fiber, more gigabit service – May 1, 2018
- Should we bring back the Woolly Mammoth? – May 1, 2018
- My City My Flow — Inboard in Cape Town, South Africa – May 1, 2018
- DogBuddy Unleashes Their Data – May 1, 2018
News: April 2018
- Four Middlebury Students Advance to Finals of Startup Challenge – April 26, 2018
- How much does temperature affect hitting at AT&T Park? – April 26, 2018
- SellHound Launches Game-Changing Online Resale Tool – April 25, 2018
- David Haussler to participate in ambitious project to sequence earth’s life – April 24, 2018
- Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy – April 24, 2018
- SomaGenics Announces Upcoming Data Presentations of its Wound Healing Therapeutic Program – April 24, 2018
- What’s so special about this year’s Mini Maker Faire? – April 24, 2018
- PayStand Announces B2B Payments Integration with SuiteCloud, Achieves ‘Built for NetSuite’ Status – April 24, 2018
- Tech Saves America at May’s Tech Meetup – April 19, 2018
- Lick Observatory expands evening programs for the public this summer – April 19, 2018
- MBEP Announces Full Program and Public-Private Partnership Award Recipients for 4th Annual Regional Economic Summit – April 19, 2018
- Genomics Institute receives funding for Human Cell Atlas projects – April 19, 2018
- Students Shine at Santa Cruz Code Center – April 18, 2018
- Genomics Justice League: Cutting-edge science and technology should be available for all – April 17, 2018
- Control theory symposium April 27 features leading academic and industry experts – April 17, 2018
- Drones & Ag: AirSpace Integration hosts VTOL fixed-wing UAV demo on April 27 – April 17, 2018
- Check out the most popular electric vehicles at Drive Electric event on May 3 – April 17, 2018
- The Near-death and Unexpected Reemergence of a Coworking Community – April 12, 2018
- Paystand’s Jeremy Almond to Keynote Business Summit – April 12, 2018
- Applications Now Open for The Radicle Automation Challenge – April 12, 2018
- What do tech companies know about me? Turns out, a lot – April 12, 2018
- Developing with immersive simulation — from the origins of life to VR education and back agai – April 11, 2018
- Participate in Santa Cruz March for Science on April 21 – April 10, 2018
- Community Foundation secures $500K for Landed to help local teachers with home ownership – April 10, 2018
- TechRaising Returns! – April 10, 2018
- Hacked! Student-organized teen hackathon takes Santa Cruz by storm – April 8, 2018
- Cabrillo Robotics Club to Compete Again in Third Annual NASA Swarmathon – April 6, 2018
- New ‘Pan-Cancer’ analysis reveals the common roots of different cancers – April 5, 2018
- MBEP invites Central Coast residents to take broadband survey – April 5, 2018
- Salinas Valley AgTech Summit Kicked Off AgTech Season – April 3, 2018
- Launchpad awards $40K to three UCSC technology projects – April 3, 2018
- Looker Announces Support for Oracle’s New Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud – April 3, 2018
- Plantronics and Polycom: David Buys Goliath – April 3, 2018
- A Bag with a Story – April 3, 2018
News: March 2018
- Buoy Labs Enters Strategic Relationship with Delta Faucet Company – March 30, 2018
- Salinas AgTech summit nets record crowd – March 29, 2018
- Drones, tractors and robots: Salinas Valley addresses evolving industry at Ag Tech Summit – March 29, 2018
- PhotoBloom AR launches Kickstarter Campaign – March 28, 2018
- Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup presents: SellHound, Merge4, MakerDao, SupplyShift, Rivetz – March 28, 2018
- 3rd annual Micro-Business Summit to be held May 4 – March 28, 2018
- Plantronics to buy video conferencing gear maker Polycom for $2 billion – March 28, 2018
- Startups Boost Social Good with Tech Shares Initiative – March 27, 2018
- Coworking space comes to Monterey – March 27, 2018
- Q&A: Suzanne Wouk on what to do with all your STUFF that you no longer need – March 27, 2018
- Seismologists introduce new measure of earthquake ruptures – March 22, 2018
- Third Time’s The Charm: the Santa Cruz Mini Maker Faire returns yet again – March 21, 2018
- More agtech startup news from Salinas agtech accelerator WGCIT – March 21, 2018
- Q&A: Lissa Daniels, VP, Demand Generation, Marketing Operations and Analytics, Looker – March 20, 2018
- Wraps off Google exec’s secret Hollister flying machine – March 20, 2018
- WGCIT resident startup BioLumic raises $5M Series A – March 20, 2018
- UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design – March 20, 2018
- MBARI scientist to receive international award for women in science – March 20, 2018
- Hartnell to host 5th Annual Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit – March 15, 2018
- Q&A: Justin Laing on the “double win” for this prolific startup junkie and his team – March 13, 2018
- Last-mile transport under construction at the end of Route 17 – March 13, 2018
- Western Growers’ AgTech Incubator Finds Solutions to Feed America’s Growing Population – March 13, 2018
- A $5 million grant will kick-start UCSC Science & Engineering library transformation – March 13, 2018
- Women of Data: Interview with Margaret Rosas – March 13, 2018
- Resident agtech startups at Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology are making news – March 10, 2018
- Conversations with Robots: UCSC’s Marilyn Walker on the Future of AI – March 9, 2018
- Data of Women: Education and Literacy Around the World – March 9, 2018
- Announcing Women of Data and the Data of Women – March 9, 2018
- Modern Tribe shares actions for inclusion on International Women’s Day – March 9, 2018
- Santa Cruz Teen Entrepreneur Challenge announces 2nd annual hackathon – March 9, 2018
- Cabrillo College Robotics Club is raising money for trip to NASA Swarmathon – March 9, 2018
- Community Broadband: Santa Cruz County Moving Beyond Incumbent Inaction – March 1, 2018
- Watch: Wheel TALK – The story of Onewheel – March 1, 2018
- Robin Hunicke to host Game Developers Choice Awards – March 1, 2018
- Looker Included in 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms – March 1, 2018
News: February 2018
- Bringing Gender Equity to the Coworking Movement: A Q&A with the Founders of Women Who Cowork – February 27, 2018
- 10 questions this Looker recruiter asks before hiring leaders – February 27, 2018
- Share the data: David Haussler envisions a new future for pediatric cancer – February 27, 2018
- From the Top: Hans Heim CEO of Ibis Cycles – February 27, 2018
- Boost Biomes Launches With $2.05M Seed Funding to Develop Microbiome-Based Products – February 27, 2018
- Buoy announces Chief Evangelist for Water – February 22, 2018
- The FCC Could Help Make Good Local Broadband Models Great – February 20, 2018
- UCSC tech incubator offers convenient access to Silicon Valley – February 20, 2018
- Watch: PayStand CEO Jeremy Almond talks about B2B payments and blockchain – February 20, 2018
- If data defines society, how should blockchain redefine data? – February 20, 2018
- Jim Brock: The future of NDAs involves bots – February 20, 2018
- Watch: CNN segment on Buoy and smart home water devices – February 20, 2018
- Joe Madden, Xpansiv CEO, to discuss digital commodities on blockchain at Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Meetup – February 15, 2018
- Q&A with Bonnie Lipscomb, Economic Development Director, City of Santa Cruz – February 15, 2018
- CSUMB to hold symposium on women in ag and tech – February 14, 2018
- UCSC’s SlugBot team chosen again to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge – February 13, 2018
- Two UCSC professors elected to National Academy of Engineering – February 13, 2018
- Analytics for All: A Smarter Way to Work with Data
– February 13, 2018 - Looker Enhances Self-Service Analytics for Everyday Business Users – February 13, 2018
- Ten years, 106 events, and 2120 pizzas later – February 9, 2018
- New report outlines benefits of growing tech sector in Santa Cruz County – February 9, 2018
- Otters in the “Shark Tank” – February 6, 2018
- Three-part series spotlights minority women entrepreneurs in agtech – February 6, 2018
- Cross-institutional cohort will participate in Transforming STEM Teaching Faculty Learning Program – February 6, 2018
- Scientists report big improvements in HIV vaccine production – February 6, 2018
- EDGE on fintech takeaways from CES 2018 – February 6, 2018
- Watch: Congrats Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup on your 10 Year Anniversary! – February 6, 2018
- Naval Postgraduate School’s Seed Program selects first group of projects for full funding – February 1, 2018
- Bloomberg: Air-Taxi Startup Has a Working Prototype and a Fresh $100M – February 1, 2018
- Joby Aviation Secures $100M in Series B Funding – February 1, 2018
News: January 2018
- CruzHacks 2018: Driving Hackathon Culture in a New Direction – January 31, 2018
- AMS Appoints Toby Corey to its Board of Directors – January 30, 2018
- NASA begins testing on Joby Aviation-designed cruise motors for all-electric x-plane – January 30, 2018
- Breakthrough leads to sequencing of a human genome using a pocket-sized device – January 30, 2018
- Santa Cruz Owns Its Brand at Titans of Tech – January 29, 2018
- 5th Annual UCSC Hackathon Continues to Drive Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship – January 25, 2018
- Community Partnership to Provide Free Wifi in Watsonville Plaza – January 24, 2018
- Makerspace brings high-tech tools to Cabrillo College – January 24, 2018
- Simplifying invention disclosure at UCSC – January 23, 2018
- Plantronics introduces its first bluetooth neckband headset with earbuds – January 23, 2018
- Western Growers agtech center exceeding expectations – January 23, 2018
- Darrin Caddes on Creativity, Soundscaping, and Why He Prefers Santa Cruz over Silicon Valley – January 23, 2018
- Paystand named in 35 Companies That Are Dominating The Bitcoin Industry – January 23, 2018
- Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary – January 23, 2018
- How Startup Weekend Monterey Bay Changed My Life – January 22, 2018
- Q&A: Maya Delano reflects on returning to NextSpace after the acquisition by Pacific Workplaces – January 18, 2018
- YaDoggie gets a mention on the Today Show – January 17, 2018
- Robert Singleton invites tech companies to invest in community engagement – January 17, 2018
- 7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data – January 16, 2018
- The Sit Down: Nielsen Studios – January 16, 2018
- CSin3 team awarded ‘Best Paper’ for SIGCSE 2018 – January 16, 2018
- From Farms to Incubators? – January 16, 2018
- Buoy makes a splash at CES 2018 (I kid you not) – January 14, 2018
- In its 5th Year, CruzHacks Continues to Inspire Innovation – January 10, 2018
- Buoy, Onewheel, YaDoggie, Plantronics represent at CES – January 10, 2018
- Watch: Inboard Technology’s year in review 2017 – January 10, 2018
- Santa Cruz techies get to CES the hard, fun way – January 10, 2018
- How Salinas went from salad bowl of the world to global agtech hub – January 9, 2018
- Code Naturally to open flagship location in downtown Santa Cruz – January 9, 2018
- State initiative funds UCSC childhood cancer research with $500K grant – January 9, 2018
- Deliveroo Selects Looker to Drive Deeper Business Insights – January 9, 2018
- Supermassive black holes control star formation in large galaxies – January 4, 2018
- Calling all AgTech Startups for THRIVE Accelerator (deadline Jan 12) – January 3, 2018
- Fuzz Stati0n Pivots – January 3, 2018
- Sleepless Media Celebrates 15 Years – January 3, 2018
- Satellite Deskworks Helps Power the Growing Shared Workspace Industry – January 3, 2018
- Q&A: Heather Heads Out – January 3, 2018
