News: January – December 2015

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News: December 2015

• Toward Solving the Food/Water/Energy/Climate Conundrum – December 30, 2015
• HACK UCSC 2016 Brings Tech and Philanthropy Together Again – December 29, 2015
• Bringing Lessons Learned in Santa Cruz to Communities Across the Nation – December 29, 2015
• Startup Weekend Monterey — Inspire the Entrepreneur in You – December 29, 2015
• Local Company Makes Worldwide Impact on Food Security – December 29, 2015
• UCSC Scores Renowned Game Developer to Run Program – December 29, 2015
• Panel Primes Community for Hack UCSC 2016 on CTV – December 29, 2015
• SCTB Highlights of 2015 – December 20, 2015
• UCSC Hires Game Designer Erin Robinson Swink as Creative Director of Master’s Program – December 17, 2015
• MBEP Reviews Productive First Year – December 17, 2015
• Lloyd Tabb on How to Spot and Magnify the Powers of Your Engineering Superheroes – December 16, 2015
• Futuristic Lights Presents Æther – December 16, 2015
• A Silicon Valley for AgTech? Innovation Center for Startups Opens in Salinas – December 16, 2015
• Central Coast Angels Invest in Electric Skateboard Startup – December 16, 2015
• CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, Local Screening Jan 14 – December 10, 2015
• The 30 Year Old Company You’ve Never Heard Of – December 10, 2015
• Santa Cruz #FIBER #LOVE becomes serious city business – December 10, 2015
• $1.76M UC Research Catalyst Award Supports Conservation Genomics Project – December 10, 2015
• Elevating Innovation at CSUMB – December 9, 2015
• It knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you’re awake – December 9, 2015
• Siren’s Song Seduces Neuner – December 9, 2015
• Fiber! Fiber! Fiber! – December 9, 2015
• Content is Queen: lynda.com Founders Tell Their Story – December 6, 2015
• Plantronics Makes Security Audits and Updates for DECT Wireless Headsets Easy – December 3, 2015
• UCSC Uses Data and Automation to Drive to Zero-waste – December 3, 2015
• How to Make Your Sales Process Snapi – December 3, 2015
• UCSC Hosts 3rd Annual Hackathon January 29-31 – December 2, 2015
• What PredPol is and What PredPol is NOT – December 1, 2015
• County Citizen Connect App Updated – December 1, 2015

News: November 2015

• CSUMB Hackathon Teams Create Cool Mobile Apps, Lifelong Connections – November 24, 2015
• HZDG Settles into Home Above Abbott Square – November 19, 2015
• CTV Continues Monthly Local Tech Segment – November 19, 2015
• MakersFactory Scores Home Run by Partnering with CTL to Distribute GBL Server – November 19, 2015
• Movado Motion Smartwatches Powered by MotionX – November 19, 2015
• Fullpower Receives Patent on Optimizing Power Management for Mobile Devices – November 18, 2015
• Plantronics and Avaya Expand Strategic Partnership – November 18, 2015
• Defense Incubator Reaching out to Monterey Bay Tech Innovators – November 17, 2015
• lynda.com Founders to Speak at Colligan Theatre on Dec 2 – November 13, 2015
• Visionaries of Santa Cruz at December Tech Meetup – November 12, 2015
• The Genomic Open: Then and Now – November 12, 2015
• I’m not a “tech person” but – November 12, 2015
• Doesn’t This Already Exist? – November 12, 2015
• CSUMB Hosts Mobile App Competition Nov 20-22 – November 11, 2015
• Who Wants Fiber in Santa Cruz? City Council Votes on Dec 8. – November 11, 2015
• Looker Blocks for Google BigQuery – November 11, 2015
• Local SACNAS Makes National Waves for STEM Diversity – November 5, 2015
• OpenCounter Launches in Boston and Orlando – November 5, 2015
• What ever happened to… (part 4) – November 5, 2015
• Happy 1st Birthday, CruzCal! – November 5, 2015
• Accelerating technological change triggers regulatory reflex in Santa Cruz – November 4, 2015
• Tri-county economy depends on infrastructure, particularly fiber and conduit – November 4, 2015
• SnapPost Ready for Release in the Apple App Store – November 4, 2015

News: October 2015

• Santa Cruz’s Big Influence on Personalize Medicine – October 30, 2015
• Harry Huskey Honored with Founding Faculty Award – October 30, 2015
• Talkin’ tech and other stuff on KSCO Radio – October 29, 2015
• What ever happened to… (part 3) – October 29, 2015
• Looker’s Data-Driven Culture –- It’s not just about the data – October 29, 2015
• Civinomics Announces New Features: Tagging, Groups, Polls – October 29, 2015
• Booyah! Just-Thawed $15.9M for Santa Cruz – October 29, 2015
• $1M Grant Will Help CSUMB Students Prep for Careers in Data Science – October 29, 2015
• Sand Hill Angels Help Entrepreneurs Hone “The Pitch” – October 25, 2015
• Angels by the Sea – October 23, 2015
• “The Internship is the New Interview” – October 22, 2015
• What ever happened to… (part 2) – October 22, 2015
• Q&A: “Our Hilary” Joins Calliope Waterworks – October 21, 2015
• Dovetail Genomics Launches Commercial DNA Sequencing-Assembly Service – October 21, 2015
• The Story of Hearth – October 21, 2015
• County Hires New Economic Development Manager – October 21, 2015
• HACK UCSC Organizers Call for Volunteers – October 21, 2015
• Cruzio Invites Community to Annual Open House Extravaganza on Nov 6 – October 21, 2015
• View this month’s Community Television (CTV) Tech Segment – October 19, 2015
• Robust Debate: Privacy for the Era of Big Data – October 16, 2015
• Q&A: Catching Up with Tom Padula, Announcing Solar Rail – October 15, 2015
• Does multimedia—including video, audio, and gamification—promote learning? – October 15, 2015
• What ever happened to… – October 15, 2015
• UCSC Research Review Day Highlights Engineering Achievements – October 15, 2015
• Adelantech Leadership Program Prepares Rural Students for Innovation Economy – October 14, 2015
• National Science Foundation Funds 3-year Study of Digital NEST – October 14, 2015
• Looker Expanding into 3rd floor of The Ritt – October 14, 2015
• Calliope Waterworks Pitches New Technology to Save Water – October 9, 2015
• Heathkit Moves to Santa Cruz – October 8, 2015
• Mobile Ranger Tells a Compelling Story for Non-profits and Celebrates Launch – October 8, 2015
• Video Intro to Numerous – October 8, 2015
• Picture This: An App for Blind Photographers – October 8, 2015
• Q&A: Jason Kaehler: Asylum Labs Accepted into Prestigious London Accelerator – October 7, 2015
• Reincarnating UCSC’s Entrepreneurship Center – October 7, 2015
• Surfnet Takes Another Try in the Santa Cruz Mountains – October 6, 2015
• New on-chip optical sensing technique used to detect multiple flu strains – October 6, 2015
• The History & The Future of Genomics In Santa Cruz – October 1, 2015
• Sand Hill Angels RAW Pitch Night (Three things an angel investor wants to hear most from an early-stage company) – October 1, 2015
• Ten Hot Companies to Watch in the Monterey Bay Region’s Growing Ag Tech Hub – October 1, 2015
• How to be “Game” in Everyday Life – October 1, 2015

News: September 2015

• Gavin Newsom to Keynote MBEP’s State of the Region Conference – September 30, 2015
• O’Neill Rides the Personalization Wave – September 30, 2015
• County Installs First Intelligent Energy Storage System – September 30, 2015
• Chip-based Technology Enables Reliable Detection of Ebola Virus – September 25, 2015
• Q&A: Kate Roberts on What You Need to Know About MBEP – September 23, 2015
• Research Review Day Highlights Advances at Baskin School of Engineering – September 23, 2015
• Can video games help stroke survivors rebuild the broken links between brain and body? – September 23, 2015
• Santa Cruz Muni Fiber Threat Forces Comcast Upgrade – September 23, 2015
• Looker Delivers a Data Platform with Looker Blocks – September 23, 2015
• Monarch Media Makes Inc. 500|5000 for the Fourth Time – September 23, 2015
• Community TV Launches “Santa Cruz Currents” – September 19, 2015
• Local Tech Invited to UCSC’s DataLex Symposium: Privacy, Big Data & The Law – September 17, 2015
• Do you need an app? Take the quiz. – September 17, 2015
• La Ola Tecnologica de Santa Cruz – September 17, 2015
• Calliope Waterworks Steps Out of Stealth… – September 16, 2015
• Genomics Institute Partners with Microsoft – September 16, 2015
• MBEP Names Kate Roberts as New President – September 11, 2015
• Gift Funds New Chair for Physics of Information at UCSC – September 10, 2015
• GamesBeat 2015 Snares Graeme Devine as Speaker – September 9, 2015
• Ten Things You Didn’t Know Were Invented in Santa Cruz – September 9, 2015
• A New Model of Local Entrepreneurship – September 9, 2015
• Foodworthy App Envisions New Future for Food Reviews – September 9, 2015
• Game Design Innovator Jane McGonigal to Visit Bookshop Santa Cruz – September 9, 2015
• Pagoda: Quietly Saving and Securing Businesses – September 9, 2015
• Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup Abuzz – September 4, 2015
• Chris Risley Joins Bastille as CEO, Opening Santa Cruz Office – September 3, 2015
• Taking Ag-Tech to the Fields – September 3, 2015
• Can Great Game Design be Taught? – September 3, 2015
• Social Accelerator Launches 3-month Pilot for Startups – September 3, 2015
• Learn How to Grow Your Etsy Business at Sept 9 Meetup – September 2, 2015
• Eaze Surfs into Santa Cruz – September 1, 2015

News: August 2015

• Facebook Donation Doubles Digital NEST Computer Capacity – August 28, 2015
• Inspiring a Data-Driven Culture – August 27, 2015
• Rocket Fuel for the Entrepreneurial Soul – August 26, 2015
• Genomics Institute Hires New Managing Director – August 26, 2015
• What to Expect Next from Civinomics – August 26, 2015
• Santa Cruz to Soledad Fiber Optic Network Shifts Course, Makes Progress – August 26, 2015
• MBEP Joins CA Stewardship Network – August 26, 2015
• MakersFactory Suffers Loss of Major Distributor – August 20, 2015
• Look Who’s in Forbes Top 100 Analytics Startups 2015 – August 20, 2015
• Seagate gift supports UC Santa Cruz research on genomic data storage – August 20, 2015
• Journey to the corner store andmaybetheywontkillyou – August 19, 2015
• Facebook ==> Digital NEST – August 19, 2015
• Nina Simon: Silicon Valley 40 Under 40 Winner – August 19, 2015
• Monterey & Santa Cruz in 2015 Best Cities for Women Entrepreneurs – August 19, 2015
• Better Than Summer Camp – August 8, 2015
• Catbird and Cronos Partnering to Secure Virtual Infrastructures in Belgium and the Netherlands – August 8, 2015
• It’s All About Building Healthy Habits – August 7, 2015
• FairVote Partners with Civinomics to Launch Ranked Choice Voting Functionality – August 6, 2015
• $1.2M for Genomics Institute’s Kids Cancer Project – August 6, 2015

News: July 2015

• Our Days Are Numbered — The Numerous App Expansion is Here – July 30, 2015
• Not Another Solar Company (Please!) – July 24, 2015
• The Kids are Alright: A Glimpse into UCSC’s Girls in Engineering Summer Camp – July 24, 2015
• Q&A: Philippe Kahn’s interview with IoT Perspectives – July 24, 2015
• Cruzio Plans for Fiber Broadband in Santa Cruz – July 24, 2015
• Idea Fab Labs Plans Grand Opening for August 7 – July 24, 2015
• Genomics Institute awarded $2M for human genome variation project – July 24, 2015
• TimeBank launches new website and asks, “Is timebanking relevant?” – July 23, 2015
• How a Santa Cruz Designer Created One of the Most Unlikely Hits in Video Game History – July 23, 2015
• Why You Should Share Your Genetic Profile – July 17, 2015
• WaveClock: Viewing the Ocean as Never Before – July 17, 2015
• AT&T, United Farm Workers, CORO, Udacity LAUNCH AdelanTECH Leadership Program – July 17, 2015
• Cruzio’s Certified Building Program Kicks into Full Drive – July 17, 2015
• Casey Beyer Hired as Business Council Executive – July 17, 2015
• Santa Cruz Tech Beat Marks Second Year Anniversary – July 17, 2015
• AgTech Summit: Silicon Valley Tackles California’s Drought – July 12, 2015
• Parting the ‘lettuce curtain’ between Silicon Valley, Salinas, Pajaro valleys – July 12, 2015
• Under-appreciated Ingredients for a Successful Startup – July 11, 2015
• Digital NEST Launches New Website by Scott Design – July 11, 2015
• Leadership Program Empowers Emerging Leaders in STEM Industries – July 11, 2015
• Santa Cruz will be Silicon Valley’s first fully fiber city – July 11, 2015
• UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project receives $250,000 to fight high-risk neuroblastoma – July 9, 2015
• CTV and Satellite to Debut New Media Complex – July 9, 2015
• Santa Cruz Bikes — SOLD! – July 9, 2015
• Forbes AgTech Summit kicks off in Gonzales – July 9, 2015
• Temperaments — Tom Padula’s Backstory – July 9, 2015
• Little Did We Suspect How Much Awaited Us… – July 2, 2015
• Announcing ChooseSantaCruz – July 2, 2015
• GeekSpeak: Internet Access Suck? Try More Fiber – July 2, 2015
• Temperaments: Tune Your Music and Your Ears – July 2, 2015
• Looking Up: 5X Jump in Revenue and New CMO – July 2, 2015
• Citizen Connect: Report Concerns to County of Santa Cruz – July 2, 2015

News: June 2015

• Travel Diary: Coworking in Santa Cruz – June 27, 2015
• Binary Fission: For Citizen Scientists Interested in Cybersecurity – June 27, 2015
• Fullpower Gets Into Bed with Serta Simmons – June 27, 2015
• A Visionary, A Genius, and the Human Genome – June 27, 2015
• GameNet & GameSage: Two New Tools for Finding Video Games – June 27, 2015
• What’s So Big About a Gig? A Bold Vision for a 21st Century Santa Cruz – June 26, 2015
• Looker Brings Self-Serve Analytics to Microsoft Azure – June 26, 2015
• Market Motive Acquired By Simplilearn for $10M – June 26, 2015
• Innovative Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry – June 19, 2015
• Q&A: Real-time Campus Shuttle Tracker is Up and Running – June 18, 2015
• Zoetic Press at the Bay Area Book Festival – June 18, 2015
• County of Santa Cruz Recognized for “Policy-Driven Broadband Initiative– June 18, 2015
• Assure Tech Named Finalist in SXSW V2V V2Venture Pitch Competition – June 18, 2015
• Cruz511: Know before you go! – June 18, 2015
• Another Breach at a Major Password Manager Site: Why passQi is Different – June 18, 2015
• CareerFoundry Offers Code & Surf Retreat – June 13, 2015
• Partnership to Create The First Coworking Spaces for Young Entrepreneurs – June 13, 2015
• Watch: Magic Leap Fireside Chat – June 13, 2015
• Plantronics Announces Winners of 2015 PLT Labs Application Innovation Contest – June 13, 2015
• Public-Private Partnership to Expand Gigabit-fiber Internet – June 13, 2015
• Santa Cruz Freelancers: Building a Thriving Local Community From the Ground Up – June 12, 2015
• ISP Cruzio Honored as Small Business of 2015 for Assembly District 29 – June 11, 2015
• The Sammy Awards 2015: Annual Event Showcases Best Games – June 6, 2015
• Futuristic Lights: From Kickstarter to Shipping – June 6, 2015
• Q&A: Diana Rothschild on NextSpace’s Evolving Website – June 6, 2015
• Innovators choose new payment tech to get around transaction costs – June 6, 2015
• NuuJack, Slithr, CareCuts, Code Naturally, Win at Business Design Showcase – June 6, 2015
• InterWorking Labs at DARPA Robotics Challenge – June 6, 2015
• June Tech Meetup Rocks The Del Mar – June 6, 2015

News: May 2015

• Ben Porterfield: Your Data Is Your Lifeblood – May 28, 2015
• On that Startup Grind in the Monterey Bay – May 28, 2015
• Ford Enters the Smart Home Market – May 28, 2015
• June Tech Meetup at Del Mar Theatre – May 28, 2015
• Gillespie – My First Typeface – May 28, 2015
• A Dad’s Perspective: Behind the Scenes at Futuristic Lights – May 28, 2015
• Cabrillo Engineering Students Create Exhibits for Children’s Museum – May 22, 2015
• Alum gifts $3M for Open Source Research at UCSC – May 22, 2015
• New UCSC Center Will Bolster Support for Innovation & Entrepreneurship – May 21, 2015
• Q&A: In The Interest of Society – From Tech to Engaged & Informed Citizenry – May 21, 2015
• Data, Discovery, Decisions: UCSC plans Center of Excellence in Data Science Research – May 21, 2015
• Cabrillo Receives $1M Grant for Tech Lab – May 21, 2015
• Narrative / Lithomobilus Selected for Publishing Startup Challenge – May 21, 2015
• Intuvo Acquired – May 21, 2015
• Unveiling Civinomics 2.0 – May 14, 2015
• Access to the Tools of Science Fiction – May 14, 2015
• uSPORT in Private Beta for Hockey, More to Follow – May 14, 2015
• We already thought Looker was cool but now Gartner does, too – May 14, 2015
• Q&A: Mark Akeson, 16th Annual Bioengineering Symposium – May 14, 2015
• New STEAMSpace Partnership: MakersFactory & Campbell Union – May 14, 2015
• Persistence Yields Progress in AIDS Vaccine Research at UCSC – May 14, 2015
• SCORE Panel: Utilizing Technology in a Business Start-up, May 20 – May 14, 2015
• Explore Frontiers of Data Science at Spring Data Science Afternoon – May 9, 2015
• Mobilegeddon? Skip the hype and follow these 3 steps – May 9, 2015
• Q&A: SACNAS opens new headquarters in Santa Cruz – May 9, 2015
• It’s not Drone Valley yet, but maybe soon – May 9, 2015
• Doug is employee #171, and more from May Tech Meetup – May 9, 2015
• “CAVE Lab” Offers Immersive Virtual Reality Tools – May 7, 2015
• Students Pitch at UCSC Business Design Showcase on May 30, 2015 – May 7, 2015
• Sky-High in Santa Cruz: Drones, Data X showcased global and local tech – May 4, 2015

News: April 2015

• Look who’s setting up shop in Santa Cruz? – April 30, 2015
• QuickComply Heads to TechCrunch In New York – April 30, 2015
• Somagenics technology helps oncologists select most effective treatment – April 30, 2015
• Let’s Play MonstRpreneur! – April 30, 2015
• Lineup for May 6 Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup includes MonstRpreneur, uSPORT, Nanigans, AppSpace  – April 30, 2015
• Philippe Kahn Navigates The Watch’s Past, Present And Future – April 30, 2015
• Dark Energy and the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe – April 30, 2015
• Don’t let anyone tell you tech is new in Santa Cruz! – April 23, 2015
• Searching for life on distant worlds – April 23, 2015
• Can having a PhD open doors for you in science writing? – April 23, 2015
• NerdWallet visits Santa Cruz – April 23, 2015
• Everything You Need to Know About the Drones, Data X Conference – April 22, 2015
• Tri-County MBEP Announces Board of Directors – April 22, 2015
• HZDG Announces First West Coast Office in Santa Cruz – April 22, 2015
• Numerous on the Apple Watch Home Stretch – April 18, 2015
• Watch: The Science Behind Predicting Crime – April 18, 2015
• Where Agriculture and Tech Intersect – April 18, 2015
• Watch: Jacob Martinez Speaks at Tech Meetup at the White House – April 18, 2015
• Philippe Kahn on The Future of Wearable Tech – April 18, 2015
• How to Get the Rent On-Time From Millennials – April 18, 2015
• Digital Arts and New Media Celebrates 10 years with Pan-DANM-onium – April 18, 2015
• Beth Shapiro Explains the Science of ‘De-Extinction’ in New Book – April 18, 2015
• Mr. Martinez Goes to Washington – April 10, 2015
• MakersFactory Partners with Distributor for Game-Based Learning Cube – April 10, 2015
• Startups Breathe New Life into “Old Borland” Building – April 10, 2015
• The story of how a European telco startup founder fell in love with Santa Cruz – April 10, 2015
• passQi: A totally new kind of password management – April 10, 2015
• First-ever Forbes Ag Tech Summit Coming to Salinas – April 10, 2015
• UCSC to host UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium in June – April 10, 2015
• Plantronics Explorer 500 hits the market at $60 – April 10, 2015
• Cityblooms and Plantronics to Receive Prestigious Environmental Award – April 10, 2015
• TimeBanking: Nobody makes a profit — on purpose – April 10, 2015
• Using Gamification to Achieve Effective eLearning – April 2, 2015
• Get over the fear and jump in – April 2, 2015
• MotionX technology: What is it, and why are Swiss smartwatches using it? – April 2, 2015
• Fullpower awarded another important patent – April 2, 2015
• Wellness app prepares for takeoff – April 2, 2015
• 7 common mistakes even smart startup founders make – April 2, 2015
• Community-owned fiber networks take a big step forward in Santa Cruz County – April 2, 2015
• May festival to merge art and tech in downtown SC – April 2, 2015

News: March 2015

• Where tech and agriculture intersect – March 30, 2015
• You choose. Canary Island or Santa Cruz. – March 26, 2015
• Exploring ocean floor is just mouse clicks away – March 26, 2015
• ETR Boosting STEM Education: Addressing a National Imperative – March 26, 2015
• Favr app puts local knowledge in your pocket – March 26, 2015
• UCSC ranked 8th in top 25 grad schools for game design – March 26, 2015
• How Payments-as-a-Service Is Changing an Industry – March 26, 2015
• PayStand launches mobile POS app for credit card, check, bitcoin – March 26, 2015
• April New Tech Meetup: Meteor, CREOpoint, Mainstreets/Favr, IDEASS – March 26, 2015
• Mission Adobe digitally preserved using 3D scanning – March 22, 2015
• New makerspace opening in Santa Cruz in May – March 20, 2015
• New Breed of Solar Panels Fine-Tunes Light for Crops – March 20, 2015
• Just another day in the office at Magic Leap – March 20, 2015
• Focus on Marine Tech in the Monterey Bay – March 20, 2015
• Plantronics products are WEBRTC-ready today – March 20, 2015
• Prepped for Launch – March 20, 2015
• Technique earns prize in NIH ‘Follow that Cell’ challenge – March 20, 2015
• We are the tech industry’s playground – March 15, 2015
• Bloomberg: The Rise of “Predictive Policing” Tech – March 13, 2015
• Plantronics wins four International Forum (iF) product design awards – March 13, 2015
• How to Integrate Into Your Coworking Community – March 13, 2015
• City of Santa Cruz joins county as Next Century Cities leader for high-speed internet – March 13, 2015
• TechRaising: How to Kill It On Kickstarter – March 13, 2015
• Bob Derber: Bitcoin and the IRS – March 13, 2015
• Cultivating Ag-Tech Culture in Watsonville – March 13, 2015
• Lookin’ good! Looker closes $30M financing – March 11, 2015
• Q&A: David Dennis — living a well balanced life – March 6, 2015
• Q&A: Jeremy Neuner — What Next? – March 5, 2015
• Rising International takes top prize CruzCares competition – March 5, 2015
• Plantronics Execs to speak about IOT at SXSW 2015 – March 5, 2015
• UC Santa Cruz students compete for $1M Hult Prize – March 5, 2015
• Why ignoring mobile is crazy – March 5, 2015
• Best place to live your lifestyle? There’s an app for that – March 5, 2015
• New executive director announced at Santa Cruz Works – March 2, 2015

News: February 2015

• MMT: The bridge between Santa Cruz and Swiss watch-making – February 27, 2015
• DNA sequencer the size of a mobile phone – February 27, 2015
• 10 Ways You Know You’re an Old School Santa Cruz Geek – February 27, 2015
• HuffPo on Digital NEST – February 27, 2015
• The most beautiful place in the world – February 27, 2015
• Big Numerous update hits the app store – February 27, 2015
• Should the US Government Establish IoT Security Legislation? – February 27, 2015
• Fourth annual Ideas of March returns to CSUMB campus in March – February 27, 2015
• Magic Leap CEO Teases ‘Golden Tickets’ for Augmented-Reality Device – February 27, 2015
• 15 Apps to Boost Your Happiness – February 27, 2015
• OpenCounter: Taking an idea to the national scale – February 20, 2015
• Genomics conference to attract worldwide audience – February 20, 2015
• Plantronics surpasses 5M Microsoft Lync optimized devices sold – February 20, 2015
• Riding the Wave of the New Tech Economy (another perspective on local housing) – February 20, 2015
• The drones are coming! The drones are coming! – February 20, 2015
• David Beach: PM Punx – February 20, 2015
• SCC Business Council on Broadband Master Plan – February 20, 2015
• Cruz Cares: A Pitch Contest for Social Change – February 20, 2015
• Plantronics & Cityblooms named as finalists for environmental award – February 13, 2015
• Apple spending $850M on solar farm project in Monterey – February 13, 2015
• Genomics Institute’s David Haussler awarded prestigious Prize – February 13, 2015
• Fullpower awarded another important patent – February 12, 2015
• Google gives Lick Observatory $1 million – February 12, 2015
• PredPol featured in Forbes: Server And Protect – February 12, 2015
• Introducing NextSpace’s new President/CEO – February 12, 2015
• Q&A: Vivo Tech founder joins SCW board – February 12, 2015
• Vioozer: For answers you can’t find on Google, Yelp, or Twitter – February 11, 2015
• John Leopold: Expanding Broadband Makes A Difference – February 11, 2015
• Let’s Leverage our Local Housing Market – February 11, 2015
• Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup knocks it outta the park – February 6, 2015
• Watch: Seebright Wave AR headset heading to Kickstarter in March – February 6, 2015
• Recap of “Invent Your Future Here” MBEP tri-county summit – February 6, 2015
• MBEP leaders dig into broadband – February 6, 2015
• Saving environment doesn’t mean choking off infrastructure & economic growth – February 6, 2015
• Catbird appoints cybersecurity veteran Bart Vansevenant as CMO – February 6, 2015
• Sending data to the web from the waters of Monterey Bay – February 6, 2015
• Ten MORE ways you know you work in tech in Santa Cruz – February 4, 2015

News: January 2015

• Making sure local choice is protected by the FCC – January 30, 2015
• Bluetooth inventor and Plantronics wireless expert named into National Inventors Hall of Fame – January 30, 2015
• Watch: Aromas man’s invention lands him on national TV – January 30, 2015
• Game designer Brenda Romero honored with Game Developers Choice Award – January 30, 2015
• You May Be Wearing an IoT Device Today – January 30, 2015
• SCNTMeetup: Food Compass, Blix Bicycles, OneWheel, Vioozer, Undo Sushi, PayStand – January 29, 2015
• New platinum hotspot at the Tannery Arts Center by Cruzio – January 29, 2015
• Local tech companies need housing to draw talent – January 29, 2015
• Let’s talk about Blix Bikes – January 28, 2015
• FileOpen: first small biz in live-work Delaware Addition – January 28, 2015
• Startup Weekend: A nice marriage of technical and non-technical – January 26, 2015
• OpenCounter One of 5 Civic Tech Startups to Watch in 2015 – January 23, 2015
• Dead Christmas Trees and Security Holes – January 22, 2015
• Ready, set, go: Startup Weekend Monterey Bay – January 22, 2015
• Watsonville workshop lures young Latinos into science – January 22, 2015
• TEDxSantaCruz seeking speakers for April 25 “Radical Collaboration” – January 22, 2015
• Internet of Things: Focus on Vodafone – January 22, 2015
• Internet of Things robot is coming to automate our homes and anticipate our needs – January 22, 2015
• Monterey County Business Council reflects on successes of 2014 – January 21, 2015
• Cosmic Hosts The After Hour Passions of Plantronics Design – January 21, 2015
• Santa Cruz computer pioneer Harry Huskey celebrates 99th birthday – January 21, 2015
• Invent Your Future Here — Monterey Bay, coming up January 29 – January 20, 2015
• Light & Motion launches crowdfunding effort – January 16, 2015
• How will possible Chamber realignment affect local tech? – January 16, 2015
• Let’s talk about hiring interns – January 16, 2015
• 15 for ’15 from Scott Design – January 15, 2015
• SQL, like C, is Past and Future of Computing – January 15, 2015
• Rising stars garner national attention in gaming – January 15, 2015
• $1M awarded for UCSC to lead on new human genome map – January 15, 2015
• President Obama’s community broadband initiative follows Santa Cruz’s path – January 15, 2015
• Hacking Out the Solution – January 12, 2015
• Who Won What for What – January 12, 2015
• HuffPo: A Clash of Codes at Hack UCSC 2015 – January 12, 2015
• Gesher Group is a student-run bridge to Silicon Valley – January 11, 2015
• CES: Plantronics Opens New Doors for Developers – January 9, 2015
• More on MakersFactory’s move to Cabrillo – January 9, 2015
• City EDO seeks input from local tech businesses – January 8, 2015
• CES: Smartphones Become See-through Augmented Reality Displays – January 8, 2015
• A Glam Look Inside of Looker – January 8, 2015
• Glove has a lot to do with it! – January 8, 2015
• 11 steps we’ve taken to promote diversity at Hack UCSC 2015 – January 4, 2015