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Nerd Stalker crew visited  the 10th Annual TechCrunch Annual Summer Party  at August Capital (2480 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA) on Friday, 7/31/2015. Their tickets were sold out. It looked like at least over 1,000 people attended the party. If you'd like to network with tech professionals and investors in the Bay Area, it's one of the best parties for you. Here are some photos from the party. Photos: Taiko Fujimura / Nerd Stalker Media   See you all at the TechCrunch Summer Party next year!

Adolfo and Greg talk Patent Trolls, Android Auto, Uber fights da Mayor and more Check out the weekly gab on tech with your hosts Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria.

There are over 200 accelerator programs around the world. Who would guess, one accelerator program in Cincinnati would be one of the most unique in the world. Ocean Accelerator 's mission is clear --&nbsp create businesses that are rooted within the Christian faith. The accelerator has all the features that all accelerator programs offer - business plan development, accounting, law, marketing, funding advice and a pitch day. Having just graduated their first class of 10 startups, they are looking for their next class starting August. We talk with startup and turn-around experienced CEO, Scott Weiss , and co-founder Chad Reynolds on what Ocean offers startups and how they integrate faith practices. 

We are back again for Week 3!  Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some great projects from the Twitterverse of Week #3 of  Maker Camp . Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Get ready for Week #4.

We follow a lot of the chip companies as they position for chunks and pieces of the IoT landscape. The players are the chip gorillas - Intel, Samsung and some are part of the ARM consortium. The chips or ICs lay the foundation for creativity in the IoT space and low power is the key. Some brands do it through education and some through engaging the IoT startup community and others both. Atmel seems to have a handle in the "both" category. We catch up with Atmel's Bob Martin and he takes us through some highlighted IoT Atmel-using startups at a recent Maker Faire.

Image Courtesy of NASA New Horizons Gallery The image above looks like the next coming of the Dark Star? No, not really, just the heart of Pluto and its frozen. But, we are not here to talk about that but the story behind the story. This week's installment of Highline, HuffPost's new longform journalism project, shines the spotlight on Alice Bowman, Johns Hopkins' Advanced Physics Laboratory's first ever woman Mission Operations Manager or as she's known to her team, M.O.M.  HuffPost's Highline Executive Editor Rachel Morris goes behind the scenes with the woman responsible for flying the most advanced unmanned spacecraft in history across 3.26 billion miles to get humanity's first ever glimpse of Pluto, all from her desk at APL outside Baltimore. Being at the helm of such an ambitious operation, Bowman is proving that spaceflight is no longer a man's game. Here's a glimpse of the article(c/o Huffington Post's Katie Maguire).

A shift towards paperless loyalty club offers from plastic cards are coming and are mainly driven by the bigger brand's ability to harvest data mentioned in a story run by the BBC about consumer loyalty . What about the smaller and medium size retailers who are often family run and not digitally savvy. Enter PopMyDeal , a app service, which grows a retailer's business by offering direct loyalty rewards or referral rewards to frequent shoppers or visitors. We interview Frank Nguyen, co-founder and CEO of PopMyDeal who explains how this can help Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMB).