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Digest #103

If there's a theme this week, it's LISTS and GIFTS. Find out...

which local company made a Forbes Top 100 list.
where Monterey and Santa Cruz line up on a list about women entrepreneurs.
which local achiever made the Silicon Valley Business Journal's "40 Under 40" list.
what Facebook gifted to Digital NEST.
how Seagate's gift of 2.5 petabytes will help researchers at UCSC.

Unfortunately, there's not-so-good news from MakersFactory. And, news you might not read anywhere else locally: Want to play andmaybetheywontkillyou?

Start reading!

Sara Isenberg, Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Publisher

Santa Cruz Tech Beat

http://santacruztechbeat.com

UC Santa Cruz
Computer Science Department

Top Stories:

MakersFactory reports that the sudden loss of its major licensed distributor will reduce expected annual revenue by $200K. What does that mean for the future of MakersFactory?

UCSC Games & Playable Media grad student Akira Thomson develops a performance empathy game about being poor and Black in America. Learn about andmaybetheywontkillyou!

On the surface it may not sound like tech, but our local tech community considers MAH Executive Director, Nina Simon, to be one of our own. Kudos to Simon for being a winner in Silicon Valley Business Journal "40 Under 40."

49% of the top 100 analytics startups are based in the Bay Area, 11% in New York, 10% in Boston. Look who's from Santa Cruz in Forbes Top 100 Analytics Startups 2015.

Also making waves outside of Santa Cruz, Digital NEST received a generous gift of 25 new xxx from Facebook.

Know what a petabyte of storage is? Seagate recently gifted data storage devices with a capacity of 2.5 petabytes to Baskin Engineering researchers to work on new ways to structure and store genomics data.

Both Monterey and Santa Cruz made the cut in GoodCall's list: 2015's Best U.S. Cities for Women Entrepreneurs. Find out who else is on the list, and what criteria was used. Read now...

Jobs/Gigs/Internships:

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Events
Note: Dates, times, and locations are all subject to change. Be sure to check the meetup website for your event.

Wed Aug 26, 6pm: Santa Cruz WordPress Meetup at Cruzio.

Wed Aug 26, 6:30pm: Santa Cruz County Ag-Tech Meetup at Digital NEST.

Wed Aug 26, 7pm: WiSE, Science on Tap, Tumor Genome Sequencing and Precision Medicine with Charles Vaske at The Crepe Place.

Thu Aug 27, 6pm, Startup Grind Monterey Bay Hosts Kyle Doerksen (Future Motion, Inc.) at CSUMB.

Tue Sep 1, 7pm: Drupal Group monthly meeting at NextSpace.

Wed Sep 2, 6pm: Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup at Del Mar.

Wed Sep 9, 6pm: Santa Cruz Etsy Meetup at TBD.

Sat Sep 12, 10am: Santa Cruz Web Developers Meetup at NextSpace.

Tue Sep 15, 6pm: Design Santa Cruz Meetup at NextSpace.

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