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