Digest #157



Here's the news you need to know.

The October 5 Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup has been cancelled. In November, Guy Kawasaki will be the featured meetup speaker at Del Mar Theater. Stay tuned for details.

Steve Blum's article tells how the dig once work done by the City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz County formed the policy core of AB 1549, and will be the model for implementing and expanding it in the coming months.

What else? Pearl has begun shipping. Find out who they're partnering with. Looker's banner year includes a list of milestones, and they're about to kick off their first multi-day event for data pros (in New York). Startup Weekend is coming to Santa Cruz. Find out what Plantronics is doing with RingCentral. As usual, there's more.

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The dig once work done by the City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz County formed the policy core of AB 1549, and will be the model for implementing and expanding it in the coming months. Read this article.


Looker's banner year means continued rapid growth. They're headed to New York soon to kick off their first multi-day event for data pros. Read this story.


Pearl begins shipping their first product, and announces partnerships with Amazon and Crutchfield. Read this story.


A home-grown group is organizing Startup Weekend Santa Cruz, an event where you can "build your startup and change the world in 54 hours." Read this story.


CSUMB will use a new $5.6M STEM grant to improve their capacity to serve Hispanic and other low-income students. Read this story.


Santa Cruz Public Library announces a series of cybersecurity workshops being taught by library IT expert, Lynne Sansevero. Read this story.


Plantronics announces a partnership with RingCentral, a leading provider of enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions. Watch the video or read this story.


A $15.5M NOAA grant includes support for CSUMB students studying eco-forecasting, climate change, ocean engineering, and big data analysis. Read this story.


Santa Cruz Office for Economic Development and SBDC offer a series of seminars: "Your Facebook Page for Small Business Saturday." Read this story
 
 
 
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