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Red Bull + Pizza Fuels Hack UCSC 2017
By Cora Monokandilos, Moriah Wolfe, Sarah Borland UCSC students, members of Hack UCSC 2017 organizing team Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 25, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Attendees pack Porter Dining […]
Developer Population Growth Rate in Latin America to Top Europe and North America in 2017
By Marthe Rana Evans Data Corporation January 26, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published Evans Data Empowers Development Decisions, January 11, 2017.] Developing countries in Latin America have embraced […]
What Bad Cars Can Teach Us About Good Websites
By Chris Miller Founder, Launch Brigade January 26, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA A long, long time ago, in another galaxy and before I started a tech business, I was an automobilemechanic. It turned out […]
Feb 1 SCNTM: Jolokia, Wit Dot, Scaphold, Aha!, Fuzz Stati0n, more
(Contributed) January 26, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup Wed Feb 1, 2017, 6pm Cruzio RSVP here. Here’s the lineup! Jolokia / Mark Pace, Jay Kopita: video streaming made easy. Wit Dot / […]
Mark Mitchell: Bridges Need Blueprints
By Mark Mitchell Degenerate Serial Entrepreneur January 25, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Over the last year, I’ve observed a recurring pattern: A pre-revenue (or low-revenue) start-up pitches an exciting new product or service. The […]
Watch: Happy 5th Birthday, Looker!
(Source: YouTube) January 25, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA “To celebrate Looker’s 5 year anniversary we put together a short video. Reflecting on our early days, we share why we believe nurturing a culture and […]
New Genome Browser Product Gives Freedom to Easily Collaborate in the Cloud
By Alexis Morgan Communications Manager, Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz January 23, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: Here’s a screenshot of the Genome Browser Gateway webpage. Contributed.) Until now, genomics research groups working […]
Looker Launches Support for Amazon Athena
(Contributed) January 23, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Helps customers easily explore and take action on data in Amazon S3 Looker today launched support for Amazon Athena – the new interactive query service for data in Amazon Simple […]
Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT) celebrates one-year anniversary
(Source: Taylor Farms blog) January 19, 2017 — Salinas, CA (Photo: The Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT) celebrates its one-year anniversary. Source: Taylor Farms blog) The Western Growers Center for Innovation and […]
Ag Tech Podcast — brought to you by Digital NEST and HeavyConnect
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat January 19, 2017 — Salinas, CA (Photo above: The Ag Tech Podcast crew meets with Dennis Donohue, former Mayor of the City of Salinas, as […]