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Looker’s Nick Caldwell Talks Tech, Leadership & Giving Back
By Maurice Cherry Revision Path February 19, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo source: Revision Path) “Now I’m in a position where maybe I can take some of my good fortune and reapply that to nonprofit […]
Local nonprofit leader, Jacob Martinez receives prestigious James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award
(Contributed) February 19, 2020 — San Francisco, CA 2020 Leadership Awards honor leaders for effective solutions to critical challenges facing the state Today, the James Irvine Foundation announces the recipients of its 2020 Leadership Awards, […]
Levered Learning to Compete in Premier Global Competition for Emerging Companies that “Bend the Arc of Human Potential”
(Contributed) February 18, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Levered Learning announced as one of Elite 200 companies that will compete in GSV Cup and present at 2020 ASU GSV Summit The ASU GSV Summit gathers […]
Ready For Anything: How Cruzio Planned, Built, and Tested a 10 Gigabit Connection in Less Than 8 Hours
By Brian Bishop Cruzio Marketing Associate February 14, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo: Cruzio completes backup link as the sun sets in Watsonville on February 13. Source: Cruzio Blog) Over here at Cruzio, we’re […]
Poly Introduces Poly Lens for Cloud-based Insights and Video Endpoint Management
(Contributed) February 11, 2020 — Amsterdam Plantronics, Inc. (“Poly” – formerly Plantronics and Polycom) (NYSE: PLT), a global communications company that powers meaningful human connection and collaboration, unveils Poly Lens, a new cloud-based insights and management […]
Google completes Looker acquisition
By Frank Bien CEO at Looker Feb 12, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image source: Looker) Today, Google Cloud announced the completion of its acquisition of Looker — a historic day that begins an exciting […]
Looker Launches Certification Program to Empower People with Validated Data Skills
(Contributed) February 11, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo source: Looker) Looker, a leading data platform company, today announced its Looker Certification program for people to get “Looker Certified.” The program is launching with two exams […]
Santa Cruz: An Emerging Green Tech Hub
By Adrian Dolatschko Santa Cruz Works February 11, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA On February 6, 2020, temperatures in Antarctica exceeded those in Santa Cruz: 64.9 °F vs 63 °F. Is there cause for alarm? […]
Former Polycom Robert Hagerty to take over as Poly interim CEO after Joe Burton steps down
(Contributed) February 11, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo: Poly CEO Joe Burton steps down) As Poly president and CEO Joe Burton steps down, board of director chairman and Polycom former CEO Robert Hagerty will […]
Elaboration: Machine Learning, People Centered
(Contributed) February 11, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA Elaboration’s technology will provide other tech companies with the ability to deeply understand nuanced emotion. New startup: What is Elaboration? As a natural language processing (NLP) company […]