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Hack UCSC 2015 gears up for January event, $10K in prizes
by Doug Erickson and Janneke Lang Hack UCSC 2015 Hack UCSC 2015 January 9-11, 2015 UCSC’s Crown Merrill Cultural Center Open to students from UCSC, CSUMB, Cabrillo College, and local high schools Register here. On […]
Tuul, PredPol, Cityblooms, CruzCal, Eggcyte, Moxtra present at Nov 5 New Tech Meetup
(submitted) The Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup presents another stellar lineup for their November 5, 2014 event. All the usual: Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10, and includes food, beverage, and live music. Attendance […]
And the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award goes to…
(Source: Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce) [Editor’s note: Read about others being recognized by the Chamber at their November 14 award dinner.] Lloyd Tabb, Founder, Chairman, and CTO of Looker, selected as this year’s Entrepreneur […]
Why Kleiner Perkins invested in Magic Leap
by Bing Gordon Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers “Over the years, I have played a part in creating many magic tricks, from one platform to the next. But this is different.” Learning to race a sports […]
How Dollar Shave got rid of its data analytics bottleneck
by Nancy Gohring Citeworld Looker helps Dollar Shave Club shave time and shave money Dollar Shave Club, the company with the hilarious viral video that launched the startup into the spotlight, was missing opportunities to […]
Looker announces partnership with Teradata
(Source: Looker) Partnership will provide access and performance in data exploration, analysis and discovery Looker has announced a partnership with Teradata, the big data analytics and marketing applications company. The combined technology integration leverages the […]
How to sequence a banana slug genome
by Kevin Karplus Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz crowd-funds a $20K project to sequence mascot’s genome “Obviously, if anyone is ever going to determine the genome of this terrestrial mollusk, […]
Santa Cruz Public Libraries offers free self-paced tech courses through Webucator
(contributed) WHAT Free online self-paced courses on Web Development, Microsoft, Adobe, Java and more are available to Santa Cruz Public Libraries patrons through a partnership with Webucator. Classes include: Microsoft Technologies and Software Adobe Software […]
It’s official: Magic Leap secures $542M funding round led by Google
by Sara Isenberg Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Publisher Recode spilled the beans early but now it’s official. We just don’t yet know what it means for Santa Cruz. So, stay tuned. [Editor’s note: For more […]
Reflections on 6 years gone by…
by Jeremy Neuner (intro) and Meaghen Liebe (Q&A) NextSpace The very first member of NextSpace On a crisp fall day back in 2008, Andreas Mueller knocked on the front door of NextSpace in Santa Cruz. […]