April 9, 2012

A new report from Gartner says that the software as a service (SaaS) market will grow 17.9 percent in 2012, with total spending topping $14.5 billion. By 2014, customers will

A new report from research2guidance finds 59 full-catalog app stores have opened since 2000, with 49 of them considered viable today. According to the firm, that’s the “saturation point,” and

Mobile analytics firm Flurry has released a new report which suggests that the Amazon Appstore is nearly as lucrative for mobile developers as Apple’s App Store. The study compared apps

Microsoft has released a preview of improvements to its Visual Studio IDE and its Team Foundation Service platform that will make it possible (and easy) to create apps for SharePoint

A new report from IDC predicts that Android will continue to increase in popularity with users — but not with developers. Although researchers usually calculate operating system market share separately

Amazon has announced that its CloudFront Web service now allows developers to stream content to iPhones, iPads and any device running Microsoft Silverlight. Called “Live Smooth Streaming,” the new feature

Most Android developers don’t offer in-app purchases, but the ones that make a lot of money do, according to a new report from Distimo. The mobile analytics firm found that

Application development tool vendor Atlassian has released version 4 of its Bamboo continuous integration and delivery server. Bamboo allows developers to test development branches of code before merging with the

Startup Koding has announced that its cloud development platform has moved out of private beta status and is now available for use by all developers (although they do still need