A new survey by Simon-Kucher & Partners analyzed payment models for the mobile development industry. They found that approximately 40 percent of apps utilize paid downloads and a third use
On Monday, Google announced a 20 percent price cut for its cloud-based storage services. On Wednesday, Amazon announced a 25 percent price drop for its S3 cloud storage. In response,
According to tracking data from App Annie, Google Play app revenue climbed 17.9 percent between September and October, while Apple App Store revenues shrink 0.7 percent. Compared to 2011, Google
Red Hat is officially opening its cloud development platform to enterprises. The company announced the launch of OpenShift Enterprise, a supported version of the company’s open source platform as a
A new report from Gartner finds that enterprises continue to embrace cloud computing enthusiastically, in many cases replacing legacy apps with software as a service (SaaS) versions. According to the
A new report from ABI Research forecasts that mobile apps will top $30 billion in revenue by the end of the year. That total includes in-app purchases, advertising and subscriptions,
A new report from mobile analytics vendor Flurry forecasts that China will have more iOS and Android devices than the U.S. by the first quarter of 2013. Currently, the U.S.
Many companies begin testing agile software development methodologies with a very small pilot program. Oftentimes, these pilot projects are very successful. But when the company begins scaling out agile to
Google has announced some changes to the Google Compute Engine that bring the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) more in line with offerings from competitors, including Amazon. Specifically, Google has