News: August 2013

Event Santa Cruz showcasing Santa Cruz business success stories starts Sept. 18 – August 30, 2013

Watch: Alex Cowan presents keynote at Salesforce users conference – August 30, 2013

Alex Cowan, author of Starting a Tech Business: A Practical Guide for Anyone Creating or Designing Applications or Software, presents keynote at Salesforce users conference – August 30, 2013

Civinomics’ Manu Keonig speaks at TEDx Burning Man – August 28, 2013

Sept 4 Santa New Tech Meetup Celebrating 3 decades of Innovation in Santa Cruz – August 27, 2013

Engineering Summer Bridge program celebrates 10 years serving new students – August 27, 2013

What does the next generation of wearable tech look like? Find out from Plantronics’ PLT Labs – August 2013

12 Watsonville High School TEC students create app to help other students learn about college – August 26, 2013

Kai Pommerenke creates site to find and compare public schools in California – August 2013

More on Laing and Stanojevic’s sale of MerchantOS to LightSpeed – August 25, 2013

Two UC Santa Cruz alumni win prestigious science teaching fellowships – August 23, 2013

$10 Million Tech Fund in Santa Cruz? An interview with Sean Tario – August 23, 2013

Free Sneak Peek Week at MakersFactory, September 3-6, 2013, 3-4:30 – August 23, 2013

Can Silicon Valley co-working go national? NextSpace CEO says yes – August 22, 2013

UC Santa Cruz ranked among best colleges for computer science majors – August 22, 2013

UC Santa Cruz SCIPP director Steve Ritz helped ensure Fermi mission’s scientific bounty – August 21, 2013

Tech visionary Jon Luini explains the evolution and ethics of the industry he created – August 20, 2013

Partnership of public and private interests floated for comprehensive fiber plan on California’s central coast – August 15, 2013

Predictive Policing International Day of Action, more here. – August 14, 2013

Looker announces a $16M Series A and a savvy new CEO to rise above stodgy old BI solutions – August 13, 2013

NextSpace Acquires The Coop Chicago Coworking Community and Secures $500K in Funding – August 13, 2013

KinCentral photo sharing app awarded $100,000 by Brazil – August 13, 2013

Cruzio network expansion picking up pace — new high-speed services available to homes and businesses across Santa Cruz County – August 13, 2013

UC Santa Cruz establishes Department of Technology Management – August 12, 2013

Gifted high-school students learn game design at UC Santa Cruz COSMOS summer camp – August 11, 2013

Watch: Cary Bran, Sr. Director, Innovation and New Ventures, introduces the Plantronics “Concept 1” wearable – August 9, 2013

Forbes.com ranks Santa Cruz Sixth in US Job Growth

• Forbes.com – August 7, 2013

• Santa Cruz Sentinel – August 8, 2013

• KSBW – August 9, 2013

AIRcable SmartDimmer light switch for iphone is an in-wall light Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (BLE) lighting controller, more at AirCable and Indiegogo –  August 5, 2013

Scott Design earns double gold in Hermes Awards – August 5, 2013

Sharable’s 5 Questions with Jeremy Neuner, Co-Author of ‘Rise of The Naked Economy’ – August 5, 2013

Plantronics Gaming Gives League of Legends Fans a Boost with Exclusive Extras – August 5, 2013

Central Coast SBDC offers Sept 17 class: Social Media for Your Business: How to Develop a Strategy that Works – August 5, 2013

Philippe Kahn on wearable electronics: huge opportunity for MEMS based sensors – August 1, 2013

Xconomy’s 3-part series about the Santa Cruz Startup Economy:

• Building an Entrepreneurial Pipeline in Santa Cruz (part 3 of 3) – August 1, 2013

• Seeding a New Generation of Startups in Santa Cruz (part 2 of 3) – July 31, 2013

• Santa Cruz, the City Over the Hill, Works to Build Its Own Startup Culture (part 1 of 3) – July 30, 2013