News: July – December 2016

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News: December 2016

Mobile Ranger Goes on Pause in 2017 – December 29, 2016
Agriculture Producers Can’t Sit on the Sidelines Waiting for Farm Robotics to Come to Them – December 28, 2016
FORA coworking feasibility report suggests unmet local demand – December 28, 2016
Driscoll’s berries becomes THRIVE corporate partner to activate startup technologies across GLOBAL value chain – December 22, 2016
Steve Blum: Trump’s FCC takes shape, and it looks like a power tool – December 22, 2016
Startup Challenge Monterey Bay 2017 Applications Open – December 22, 2016
Digital NEST & Salinas Public Library Launch Youth Tech – December 22, 2016
Bud and Rebecca Colligan establish Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics – December 22, 2016
SCTB Highlights of 2016 – December 15, 2016
Looker Data Actions Simplifies Day-to-Day Workflows – December 15, 2016
My Bets for 2017, by Lloyd Tabb – December 14, 2016
The inventor of Bluetooth on where wireless is going next – December 14, 2016
Campus inventors recognized for recent patents – December 14, 2016
Bud Colligan Recognized as 2016 California Steward Leader – December 14, 2016
Startup Weekend Monterey Bay 2017 Registration Now Open – December 14, 2016
Kick off 2017 with green tech at Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup – December 14, 2016
You missed AWS Office Hours? Watch the video – December 14, 2016
UC Santa Cruz team chosen to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge – December 9, 2016
Shall we bring the “Freelance Isn’t Free Act” to Santa Cruz? – December 8, 2016
Watch: Monterey Bay Community Power gains momentum – December 8, 2016
Meet CEOs from Driscoll’s Berries, Taylor Farms, other ag companies – December 8, 2016
TechCrunch: Inboard’s M1 electric skateboard offers stiff competition – December 8, 2016
Case study: How to build a successful online learning community – December 8, 2016
MBEP Announces New Regional Dashboard to Track Progress in Key Domains – December 4, 2016
Pitch Slam! students compete at 2nd annual event – December 4, 2016
Watch: Iris and Jacob talk about Mission Based Coworking – December 4, 2016
Shark Tank: Inboard accepts $750K loan offer – December 3, 2016
Inboard swims with the sharks – December 3, 2016
PBS NewsHour Features Salinas AgTech Strategy – December 3, 2016
Watch: Jeremy Neuner says the office is obsolete | TedX – December 3, 2016

News: November 2016

Inboard invites Santa Cruz community to “Shark Tank” viewing party – November 21, 2016
UCSC grads launch first StartUp Weekend in Santa Cruz – November 21, 2016
Philippe Kahn makes Time’s 100 most influential photos of all time! – November 17, 2016
RearVision Takes Home 8 Awards at SEMA – November 17, 2016
Nominations are now open for THRIVE AgTech Top 50 – November 16, 2016
Salinas City Council to Consider Agtech Partnership with Hartnell College – November 16, 2016
ETR Researchers Explore Community College Pathway to Computer Science Degree in Study Commissioned by Google – November 16, 2016
WSJ on Onewheel: The Futuristic Toy We Hoped For – November 16, 2016
Students to pitch viable ideas for positive environmental change – November 16, 2016
Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup announces updated December lineup – November 16, 2016
Watch: Iris and Ian on coworking legal resources – November 10, 2016
Watch: LLooker’s Lloyd Tabb on the Importance of Language in Business and Data – November 10, 2016
Consumer Technology Hall of Fame honors Plantronics wireless expert for invention of bluetooth – November 10, 2016
CSUMB Hackathon 2016: Games solve community problems – November 10, 2016
Watch: Meet Looker 4 (webinar) – November 9, 2016
Zero Motocycles announces 2017 lineup – November 9, 2016
What’s new in Pearl App 1.2 – November 9, 2016
Curious about Amazon Web Services? Attend first AWS Office Hours – November 9, 2016
Scenes from scene: Guy Kawasaki at SCNTM – November 5, 2016
Cybersecurity company Catbird to be acquired – November 4, 2016
Watch: In case you missed Guy Kawasaki at the meetup, here’s the video – November 3, 2016
Merrill Farms in Salinas “harvesting sun for profit, sustainability” – November 3, 2016
County of SC seeks consultant to develop system to attract & retain skilled tech workers – November 3, 2016
Futuristic Lights announces third major product – November 3, 2016
DevOps Workflow Spotlight: Modern Tribe – November 3, 2016
Western Growers announces new leader for premier agtech startup incubator – November 3, 2016
Watch: UCSC Business Design Showcase, reflections on 2016, plans for 2017 – November 3, 2016
Forbes AgTech Summit returns to Salinas June 2017 – November 3, 2016

News: October 2016

PayStand Introduces First-Ever Blockchain Certification of Payments – October 28, 2016
Fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains! Cruzio and the Loma Fire – October 27, 2016
What does a great distributed digital museum experience look like? – October 27, 2016
Company culture in your startup: It’s a founder’s job – October 27, 2016
A Drupal trip: From Santa Cruz to Ireland and back – October 27, 2016
MBEP: Catalyzing Community Well-Being – October 27, 2016
Watch: We’re here to deliver the first BUOY – October 26, 2016
Smith Micro Enhances Animation Process with Moho and New Surface Studio from Microsoft – October 26, 2016
Monarch Media Inc. announces appointment of new CEO – October 26, 2016
PayStand accepted into Forbes Finance Council – October 24, 2016
Q&A: Matt Huffaker says “Watsonville’s fiber is open for business” – October 22, 2016
CSUMB’s Digital Otter Center offers free community tech support – October 22, 2016
UCSC student games win awards at IndieCade – October 21, 2016
CSUMB Hackathon Nov 4-6 to promote use of technology to solve emerging community concerns – October 21, 2016
Watch: Looker Life = Customer Love – October 20, 2016
Green Tech: Salinas holds its first Electric Vehicle Summit – October 20, 2016
Broadband projects queued up for Monterey startups – October 20, 2016
Looker Unveils the Next-Generation Data Platform – October 18, 2016
Q&A: Wit and wisdom of Guy Kawasaki on display at “The Art of Social Media” November Tech MeetUp – October 14, 2016
Q&A: Rob Currie, Genomics Institute CTO, on “the global virtuous cycle of open data” (and more) – October 13, 2016
Student-built StudyBuddy seeks participants for live beta – October 13, 2016
Vietnamese IT delegation to visit Monterey Bay – October 13, 2016
It comes from the spirit of Santa Cruz! – October 13, 2016
CEO reflects as MakersFactory prepares to close up shop – October 13, 2016
I am Shane Pearlman, Partner at Modern Tribe. Ask me Anything! – October 6, 2016
The Retro Challenges of Runner3 – October 6, 2016
How to write a resume to get an interview (by Looker’s director of recruiting) – October 6, 2016
SomaGenics secures $1.7M in funding from NIH – October 6, 2016
The Ultimate Website Workout – October 5, 2016
Rural reboot: Salinas is turning crop pickers into computer programmers – October 5, 2016
UC MBEST: High-tech ambitions rekindled on Fort Ord – October 5, 2016

News: September 2016

Santa Cruz tech policy adopted statewide, up to a point – September 30, 2016
Facebook classes offered for “Small Business Saturday” – September 29, 2016
Looker rallies data pros to New York for its first multi-day event – September 29, 2016
Plantronics partners with RingCentral – September 29, 2016
Startup Weekend Santa Cruz: change the world in 54 hours! – September 28, 2016
Santa Cruz Public Library announces series of cybersecurity workshops – September 28, 2016
CSUMB selected to receive $5.6M STEM grant – September 28, 2016
CSUMB students, local researchers to benefit from NOAA Grant – September 28, 2016
Pearl begins shipping, announces partnerships with Amazon and Crutchfield – September 27, 2016
Dovetail Genomics Adds PacBio SMRT Sequencing and Assembly to Its Services Menu – September 23, 2016
Coworking: Iris Kavanagh and Maya Delano talk about Mastering time and space. – September 22, 2016
Erika Check Hayden named third director of SciCom program at UCSC – September 22, 2016
Demand for Inboard’s M1 has “exceeded our wildest expectations” – September 22, 2016
Virtru makes encrypted email easy, starts hiring in Santa Cruz – September 22, 2016
Genomics leader David Haussler to advise Chan Zuckerberg science initiative – September 21, 2016
UCSC student games featured at IndieCade Festival – September 15, 2016
Back when SCO & Pizza Hut made headlines with PizzaNet – September 15, 2016
Reesa Abrams: This blooming of STEM women is long overdue – September 15, 2016
City of Salinas: Results from the 2016 Forbes AgTech Summit – September 14, 2016
Dovetail Genomics and Illumina to Co-Market Dovetail’s Full-Service Genome Assembly – September 14, 2016
Big Questions To Be Explored At UCSC Silicon Valley Campus Grand Opening – September 14, 2016
New optofluidic platform features tunable optics and novel ‘lightvalves’ – September 14, 2016
NSF funds UCSC project to develop assisted public transit services – September 14, 2016
The part where you’re still writing your story – September 9, 2016
Tech startups Slick, Impact Scorecard lured to Santa Cruz – September 9, 2016
Angels by the Sea – Our First Six Months – September 9, 2016
UCSC IEEE students seek presenters & sponsors for October conference – September 8, 2016
Citizen Connect app wins statewide award – September 8, 2016
Perfect for the new Apple iPhone – September 8, 2016
Run-Sleep-Code-Repeat! Interning at Fullpower – September 8, 2016
Catbird Networks Lends Expertise to New Report Calling for Revolutionary Approach to Cyber Security – September 8, 2016
Current eBikes Opens in Downtown Santa Cruz – September 2, 2016
Daniel Mintz: Data is useless – September 1, 2016
Hey, Siri, Let’s talk! (Solving a nuanced engineering problem) – September 1, 2016

News: August 2016

Western Growers Opens AgTech Innovation Arena Competition – August 31, 2016
Database for National Cancer Moonshot Initiative Born in the Santa Cruz Foothills – August 31, 2016
NextSpace launches second coworking space in Silicon Valley – August 30, 2016
Taylor Farms looks to new technologies to attract millennial workers – August 25, 2016
Q&A: Nathan Dorn, Food Origins, on solving growers’ problems – August 25, 2016
Watch: Inboard M1 Walkthrough with CEO Ryan Evans – August 25, 2016
Fuzz Stati0n, Slick, Tiny Garage, Futbol Connect, Impact Scorecards – August 25, 2016
Ocean Program Celebrates 20 Years, Online Curriculum To Go National – August 24, 2016
Q&A: Alexander Wolf, New Dean of Baskin Engineering – August 24, 2016
Audio: Looker explores 20 years of Census data – August 19, 2016
Audio: Tomasz Tunguz & Frank Bien discuss Winning with Data book – August 19, 2016
Slick: Six months out and here’s what we have left to do… – August 19, 2016
Plantronics headsets aren’t going out of style – August 19, 2016
Fullpower makes the tech inside Beautyrest’s new standalone sleep tracking device – August 18, 2016
FORA seeks your input on coworking in the Monterey Bay region – August 18, 2016
See what new partners are joining the THRIVE AgTech ecosystem – August 9, 2016
Robin Hunicke Wants to Change Video Games, But She Can’t Do It Alone – August 9, 2016
Analysis of metastatic prostate cancers suggests treatment options – August 4, 2016
iGEM team plans to produce sweeteners from agricultural byproducts – August 2, 2016
Plantronics CEO Ken Kannappan to retire – August 2, 2016
Watch: An epic milestone, Inboard delivers first M1 – August 2, 2016
Salinas agtech HeavyConnect selected into 500 Startups accelerator program – August 2, 2016

News: July 2016

IDE: Taking a simple toy to the next level – July 28, 2016
SomaGenics signs licensing agreement with Rubicon Genomics – July 28, 2016
August Tech Meetup is sure to lift the summer fog – July 28, 2016
RearVision: More than just a backup camera – July 28, 2016
Monterey Bay Internships Officially Launches – July 27, 2016
County of Santa Cruz named the 8th-most digital friendly county in the nation – July 27, 2016
Introducing: The Art of Relevance by Nina Simon – July 22, 2016
Simplilearn closes Scotts Valley office – July 22, 2016
SACNAS-Ignition Partnership Supports STEM Diversity – July 21, 2016
Crank Logic Cranks Up – July 21, 2016
Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative receives $2.5M grant – July 21, 2016
SVG Partners Launch THRIVE III Open Innovation Program – July 20, 2016
Plantronics wins three prestigious 2016 Red Dot awards – July 20, 2016
Cruzio announces start of Santa Cruz Fiber project – July 20, 2016
Looker Democratizes Census Voting Data – July 20, 2016
No doubt about it, Salinas is at forefront of AgTech industry – July 14, 2016
3-year Future: Tech Momentum Pushes Santa Cruz – July 14, 2016
MBARI receives $75K for climate study – July 14, 2016
Forbes Summit brings innovative agtech industry to Salinas – July 14, 2016
Balancing gender parity in STEM participation through theater… and robots – July 14, 2016
iFood Decision Sciences Launches App at Forbes AgTech Summit – July 14, 2016
Making the Case for WordPress in Education – July 14, 2016
Q&A: Vab Media releases new (free) guide to help startups with SEO – July 8, 2016
Q&A: Patrick Zelaya is building the bridge between agriculture and technology – July 7, 2016
Q&A: Mohamed Abousalem joins UCSC Office of Research – July 7, 2016
Code Naturally Rolls Out Coding Camps for Kids – July 7, 2016
Riding the Revolution in Electric Transportation – July 7, 2016
Kickstarter: Modarri’s Modular Monthly Subscription – July 7, 2016
Look who made “10 Coolest Security Startups Of 2016 (So Far)” – July 7, 2016
July 19 AgTech Meetup Features Three Startups from Salinas-Based Incubator – July 1, 2016

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