Another year, another chance to throw a rubber sphere at the Twilio guys' heads. For a good cause, of course.
Can Famo.us make the web run faster? A cool demo suggests yes.
Firefox is getting a new social sidebar, and the first service to use it will be Facebook Messenger.
When Twitter bought mobile A/B testing creator Clutch.io just two months ago, the team behind Clutch promised to open source the components behind both their A/B testing tool, and the company's mobile development framework.
Facebook has been taking heat for eons over its mobile strategy, and this news is likely to send certain analysts through the roof: The social network's first-ever interface for mobile ads, which launched October 3, was the work of a couple interns.
Two academically inclined tinkerers made this cool tool for hardware hackers to collaborate and share their designs free of charge.
In addition, VentureBeat has discovered, Authentec has discontinued both the original security software and its replacement ... and deleted the evidence from its website (though not from Google's cache).
As of today, Google is allowing developers to build free trial periods into their subscription apps.
Enterprise cloud storage business Box has announced a new HTML5 embeddable framework called “Box Embed� that will let more people access Box’s service through other applications, the company said today.
There are moments in your life as a mobile developer when you actually don’t want or need your app to get super popular — for example, when you’re building an app for internal corporate use only, or when you’re testing …
Android tablet apps are notoriously of mixed quality. Google hopes to correct that -- and fast, since holiday sales are coming up soon.
It doesn't say good things about a company or a division when a leader leaves after such a short time. And, given the moves of the market in the past couple of years, I'm wondering if there's a future for AppUp.
Codecademy, Startuplandia's favorite online coding teacher, has just added Ruby to its library of courses.
Shopsavvy is about to get a lot more useful for Best Buy shoppers.
Softarex's software seeks out problems in deep source code and suggests improvements.
Sit down with execs from any tech company in America and ask them about their biggest obstacle to growth. 99 times out of a 100, they'll tell you about their ongoing struggle to find technical talent. Launching today, Entelo wants to change that.
Want an app but can't code? This may help.
Editor's Pick How do you top building the language that's behind a third of the web?
As far as user milestones go, 20,000 is usually nothing to boast about. But for the App.net, the little achievement means the company can reduce its prices.
Urban Airship is adding location services on top of its popular push messaging.
Is Facebook fair as a platform? Sean Ryan, head of game partnerships at Facebook, says the charts tell us that it is.
Two months into an experiment that caters to the ideals of developers and consumers alike, the social platform App.net has revealed the particulars of how it plans to incentivize the creation of top-notch applications.
An online graphing calculator might not seem like a big deal to you, but between accessibility and STEM inspiration, Google Ventures felt the love.
With almost 740,000 active apps in the Apple ecosystem and similarly huge numbers in Google Play, how is a mobile app developer to stand out?
Editor's Pick Since the original web boom of the 1990s, Jon Marcus has been meeting and interviewing tech startup team members. Now, he knows what makes a team sink or swim -- and it's not the one percent of Wozniak-like coding geniuses.
Editor's Pick Data harvester 3taps is countersuing Craigslist to save the internet. Believe it or not, that just might not be an overstatement.
"Craiglist was an innovator at one time," says 3taps chief executive Greg Kidd. "But time has moved on, and the concept of what the open web is today has evolved."
Reflow is Adobe's Creative Suite-level tool for responsive design. It lets developer/designers pull in images and motion graphics, create HTML divs and CSS styling on the fly, and then quickly adjust sizes and elements for different screen sizes.
We've just had our first "gee, whiz!" moment at Adobe's Create the Web event. The company announced Edge, its new suite of tools for web and mobile devs and designers, and one of the coolest tools (that we've seen in demos so far) is the open-sourced CSS FilterLab.
App development platform Trackvia raises $7.1 million
Today, Adobe is unveiling Edge, a suite of tools for developing and designing modern web and mobile apps and sites.
For businesses, building 'big data' capabilities is far easier said than done. Precog wants to change that by making it easier for companies to ask questions about their data.
Editor's Pick The handy utility If This Then That (IFTTT) recently announced the end of its Twitter integration. Fortunately, there are workaround.
More and more people are getting the itch to learn how to code -- or wake up one day and realizing their futures depend on it. The "Geekfather" Ryan Carson is helping them through a series of onine courses, the latest one teaching PHP.
Yoga mats have become quietly de rigeur for developers in the Dutch capital, as yoga classes for startups spring up around the city.
What skills are startups looking for in a new hire? Duedil and Adzuna just analyzed 2,697 startup job vacancies in the UK to find out.
If this, then that. It's the mathematical reasoning behind IFTTT, a technology service that triggers automatic connections between web services. It's also a formula that spells trouble when "this" has anything to do with "that" company, Twitter.
New Facebook app updates once a month? It sounds too good to be true, but it's the result of Facebook's fast and furious hacker ethic for shipping code.
Facebook has just announced its new Shared Activity plug-in, a tool that lets you manage who sees what you're doing on Facebook-connected apps.
Developers will be able to use YoYo Games' GameMaker: Studio to publish easily on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Yesterday Google Research pulled the shroud off Spanner, Google's "scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database," claiming to have created "the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions."
