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Robert Singleton invites tech companies to invest in community engagement
By Robert Singleton Executive Director, Santa Cruz County Business Council Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 17, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA “Participation matters, especially when dealing with major decisions and larger community investments […]
7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data
By Daniel Mintz Chief Data Evangelist, Looker January 16, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA To many people, analytics tools all look the same. Some dashboards, a few reports, a way to slice data. That’s because […]
The Sit Down: Nielsen Studios
By Rebecca Unitt and Amanda Rotella City of Santa Cruz Economic Development January 16, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA For our second installment of the Sit Down series we chatted with Timerie Gordon and Christian Nielsen, […]
CSin3 team awarded ‘Best Paper’ for SIGCSE 2018
(Source: Hartnell College) January 16, 2018 — Salinas, CA [Editor’s note: The CSin3 program is a collaborative degree program between CSU Monterey Bay and Hartnell College. Students in this program earn a Bachelor’s degree in […]
From Farms to Incubators?
By Amy Wu Founder, Farm to Incubator Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 16, 2018 — Salinas, CA From Farms to Incubators: Minority women entrepreneurs in agtech moves forward with grant from Howard G. […]
Buoy makes a splash at CES 2018 (I kid you not)
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 14, 2018 — Las Vegas, NV [Editor’s note: For more about Santa Cruz companies at CES 2018, see Buoy, Onewheel, YaDoggie, Plantronics represent at […]
In its 5th Year, CruzHacks Continues to Inspire Innovation
By Sarah Ali & Alexis Camanga CruzHacks January 10, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: The Virtual Smart Mirror project gives a demonstration to the judges at last year’s 2017 UCSC Hackathon. Credit: Stephen […]
Buoy, Onewheel, YaDoggie, Plantronics represent at CES
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 10, 2018 — Las Vegas, NV (All photos by Steve Blum) No, I wasn’t in Las Vegas for CES, the huge annual Consumer Electronics […]
Watch: Inboard Technology’s year in review 2017
(Source: YouTube) January 10, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Inboard visits Venice Beach, CA) From Venice Beach to NYC and beyond We’ve had a fantastic year with our riders all over the world. […]
Santa Cruz techies get to CES the hard, fun way
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 10, 2018 — Las Vegas, NV (Photo above: Jane Campbell of Future Motion shows off the Onewheel+ XR at CES in Las […]