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What Windows Phone 8 Offers Developers

On Monday, Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8. The new mobile OS is full of features for business users and consumers, and it also has a few things to offer

Nokia Entices Developers with Ad Exchange

In a bid to attract more developers to build apps for its smartphones, Nokia has announced a new ad exchange program. The Nokia Ad Exchange (NAX) will leverage technology from

Google App Engine Experiences Outage

Cloud development platform Google App Engine experienced widespread downtime on Friday. At the time of writing, it wasn’t clear what was behind the outage at the popular platform as a

Using Python for Big Data Analysis

At Friday’s PyData conference in New York, engineers from AppNexus explained how their company is using Python for big data analysis. Python, which is known as one of the easier

Yahoo Buys Mobile Development Firm Stamped

Marissa Mayer has purchased her first company as chief executive of Yahoo. Her company acquired Stamped, a mobile development startup that has created a review app with some social features.

Continuity Offers Hadoop-as-as-Service

Continuity, a new startup founded by former Yahoo cloud VP Todd Papaioannou and Facebook engineer Jonathan Gray, wants to simplify Hadoop for developers. Gigaom’s Derrick Harris explains, “Rather than simply