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Santa Cruz to Soledad Fiber Optic Network Shifts Course, Makes Progress
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat August 27, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Work on an independent fiber route that will run from Santa Cruz to Watsonville, and then […]
MBEP Joins CA Stewardship Network
by Mary Wright Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP) August 26, 2015 — Monterey, CA Monterey Bay Economic Partnership will join alliance of twelve regional groups in California Stewardship Network MBEP Summit date set for November […]
MakersFactory Suffers Loss of Major Distributor
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat August 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Annual revenue loss of $200K expected Dave Britton, CEO of MakersFactory, a local 3D learning company based on […]
Look Who’s in Forbes Top 100 Analytics Startups 2015
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat August 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA Let’s cut to the chase. Looker made the Forbes list of Top 100 Analytics Startups in 2015. Kudos […]
Seagate Gift Supports Genomic Data Storage
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz August 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Ethan Miller, professor of computer science, directs the Center for Research in Storage Systems, aka CRSS. Credit: Elena Zhukova) This […]
Journey to the corner store andmaybetheywontkillyou
By Leigh Alexander Boingboing.net (Photo above: Kym Dominique-Ferguson runs the ‘andmaybetheywontkillyou’ game at Princess of Arcade in Montreal. Credit: Akira Thompson) August 20, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA [Editor’s note: andmaybetheywontkillyou was developed at UC […]
Facebook ==> Digital NEST
By Todd Guild Register-Pajaronian August 20, 2015 — Watsonville, CA (Photo above: A Digital NEST student is shown at the tech company Looker. Credit: David Dennis) [SCTB Editor’s note: Jacob Martinez send this update: We […]
Nina Simon: Silicon Valley 40 Under 40 Winner
By Lynn Peithman Stock Silicon Valley Business Journal August 19, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s Nina Simon is a Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 […]
Monterey & Santa Cruz in 2015 Best Cities for Women Entrepreneurs
By Paul Southerland GoodCall August 19, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA GoodCall’s 2015 Best Cities for Women Entrepreneurs Out of 100 cities listed: #10 Monterey, #17 Santa Cruz With the growth of women-owned businesses on […]
Better Than Summer Camp
By Ethan Elshyeb Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat (Photo above: Ethan Elshyeb, programmer, and David Eyes, passQi founder, work at NextSpace. Contributed.) August 8, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA When I turned 14 this […]