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Forbes Hosts Third AgTech Summit, June 28-29, 2017, Salinas Valley
(Contributed) May 18, 2017 — Salinas, CA The event will bring together more than 600 of the most entrepreneurial minds in global agriculture with those from the Silicon Valley to tackle some of the world’s […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz May 18, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA UC Santa Cruz may not have a medical school, but its scientists are tackling some of the most challenging problems in cancer […]
Looker Announces Support for Amazon’s Redshift Spectrum
(Contributed) May 18, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Delivers customers new levels of scale and speed for accessing massive data stores Looker today announced support for Amazon Redshift’s new Spectrum feature. This provides Amazon Redshift […]
EDGE Mobile Payments Announces EDGE Mobile Pay App
(Contributed) May 18, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA New mobile wallet app works with both smartphones and EDGE Card EDGE Mobile Payments announces the development of EDGE Mobile Pay, a new smartphone app that will […]
UCSC genetics lab helps solve the mystery of ‘Miranda Eve’
By Kimberly Hale (UC Davis) & Tim Stephens (UCSC) May 12, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: The coffin of a little girl was found buried beneath a San Francisco home during renovation work […]
The Sentinel missed the mark: Santa Cruz Fiber project is still very much on track
By Robert Singleton, Santa Cruz Fiber, and James Hackett, Cruzio. May 11, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA We all make mistakes, and no one is perfect, even our normally steadfast local paper. However, the Sentinel missed […]
Steinbeck Festival Hosts Women in Agtech: Film Screening and Panel
By Amanda Blackwell International Environmental Policy M.A. Candidate ‘18, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey May 11, 2017 — Salinas, CA (Photo above: Left, HeavyConnect’s Rivka Garcia and right, AgShift’s Miku Jha share their […]
Q&A: WordStream acquires Algorithmic Ads
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat May 11, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA You may recognize John Marshall as the person who designed and built a prosthetic hand for a 12 […]
The Fight for Net Neutrality, and How You Can Help
By Peggy Dolgenos CEO, Cruzio May 11, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA When someone who’s supposed to be an industry’s watchdog says they want to “cut red tape,” it’s time to look out. Watchdogs, after all, […]
Watch: Food Origins Success Story
(Source: Western Growers Association, YouTube) May 11, 2017 — Salinas, CA Nathan Dorn, founder of Food Origins, tells us about a case study where he helped a grower save money by helping the grower track […]