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Guy Kawasaki’s slide deck from local presentation
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat The Del Mar was abuzz last night as Guy Kawasaki enchanted a full house. Here’s this slide desk from his local Santa Cruz presentation:
How Zero Motorcycles builds the Tesla of two-wheelers in Silicon Valley
About 45 miles south of the Silicon Valley factory where Tesla Motors is building out the electric automobile industry one car at a time, Zero Motorcycles is undertaking a perhaps more difficult task. The company, […]
Mobile Ranger app-tour helps launch Santa Cruz Wharf into 21st century
by Julia Gaudinski Founder, Mobile Ranger It’s the dawn of the 1910s, and the many tentacled arms of national rail lines have wreaked havoc on ocean shipping from Santa Cruz. City fathers, as a last […]
Why Guy?
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat As you’ve read previously in Santa Cruz Tech Beat (here and here), Guy Kawasaki will be speaking in Santa Cruz on Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 6pm. […]
Powerslayer by Velvetwire featured at MoMA NYC for NYCxDESIGN
by Sara Isenberg Publisher, Santa Cruz Tech Beat In honor of NYCxDESIGN (New York City’s official citywide celebration of design) the MoMA Design Store has selected Velvetwire’s Powerslayer and a small suite of other products […]
Plantronics reports record revenues for fiscal year 2014
by Jennifer Pittman Santa Cruz Sentinel Company focuses on Unified Communications Although fourth quarter numbers were slightly down from a year ago, Santa Cruz headset maker Plantronics reported record revenues, operating income and earnings per […]
Acclaimed game designer speaking at UCSC on Tue May 6
by Scott Rappaport UC Santa Cruz Game designer and producer Robin Hunicke will present a talk titled “Expanding Games” on Tuesday, May 6, beginning at 12:30 p.m. at the UCSC Digital Art Research Center (Room […]
Red Hat to acquire Inktank, a cloud storage company with UCSC roots
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz Inktank founder Sage Weil developed the company’s open-source Ceph data storage system as a computer science graduate student at UC Santa Cruz Read WSJ.com coverage: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/04/30/open-source-push-red-hat-nabs-inktank-for-175-million/ Open-source software provider […]
TechRaising 2014: 48 Hours of Innovation, Ambition, and Collaboration
by Xochitl Rojas-Rocha Participants gather to make magic happen “You’re all here to make magic happen,” said Margaret Rosas in her welcoming speech at the sold-out 2014 TechRaising event in the Cruzio Internet building, downtown […]
UCSC Baskin School of Engineering Dean Art Ramirez Steps Down
(Contributed by UC Santa Cruz) Ramirez will return to research Art Ramirez, who has served UC Santa Cruz as dean of engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering for the past five years, has announced […]