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City EDO seeks input from local tech businesses
By Rebecca Unitt City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Department A database of tech companies in Santa Cruz The Santa Cruz Economic Development Office (EDO) has been working for the past several months to develop […]
11 steps we’ve taken to promote diversity at Hack UCSC 2015
By Brent M. Haddad Director, UCSC Center for Entrepreneurship & Hack UCSC 2015 Organizer January 4, 2015 — Santa Cruz, CA It was Saturday morning, April 5, and that wonderful, intense quiet was settling over […]
Broadband breakout in 2015 for California’s central coast
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Santa Cruz Tech Beat, for which I sometimes write, published its picks for top stories of 2014. It’s a good list and takes a holistic view of the local […]
January 2015 tech meetup features InsideMaps, Folloze, Focuster, Ruly.
(contributed) Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup welcomes 2015 We have a great lineup of presenting companies to kick off the year. All the usual: Doors open at 6pm. Admission is $10, and includes food, beverage, […]
Best of 2014 Santa Cruz Tech
By Sara Isenberg Publisher/Editor, Santa Cruz Tech Beat We had an amazing year. After reviewing the news of 2014, I was really inspired by how much happened in the local tech community this year! What […]
The missing Facebook app for Mac
By Scott Kyle Current Creator Full-featured app, Current, has successful launch For the past several months, I’ve been working full time on realizing my vision of a Mac app that takes Facebook out of the […]
Watch: New Tech and TechRaising on Think Local First Radio
By Sara Isenberg Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Publisher As you may recall from a previous feature article, KSCO radio (1080 AM) has a new program, hosted by Matthew Swinnerton, called “Think Local First Radio.” In this […]
5 Questions with Doug Erickson
By Matthew Swinnerton Event Santa Cruz Doug Erickson, founder of the popular Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup, talks about what’s next for the Meetup, Hack UCSC, and more Matthew: So Doug, when and why did […]
Full house at Santa Cruz Tech Meetup, local tech on the rise
By Jondi Gumz Santa Cruz Sentinel London firm, VivoInspire, relocating HQ to Santa Cruz VivoInspire.com, a company of 50 employees that developed technology to help students build good habits, acquired Santa Cruz startup Arqetype, moved […]
Survey finds a wealth of fiber in Santa Cruz, but it’s mostly exclusive wealth
By Steve Blum Tellus Venture Associates Santa Cruz – the city and surrounding unincorporated communities – is laced with fiber optic cables. That’s the finding of a survey commissioned by the Central Coast Broadband Consortium […]