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The Best Places to Work as a Software Engineer

Glassdoor.com has published a new report that compares average pay for software engineers at 15 leading tech firms. The top five included the following: Google ($128,336) Facebook ($123,626) Apple ($114,413)

Apple Buys HTML5 Development Firm Particle

Apple has reportedly purchased Particle, a San Francisco-based Web app development firm, for an undisclosed sum. Several of the company’s employees stayed on to work for Apple as “creative technologists”

More Vendors to Debut OpenStack Cloud Offerings

During this week’s OpenStack Summit in San Diego, several vendors plan to unveil new or expanded cloud offerings based on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform. For example, Cloudscaling

RIM Begins Accepting BlackBerry 10 Apps

In its Developer blog, RIM announced that it began accepting BlackBerry 10 apps on October 10. In order to entice would-be BlackBerry developers, it promises that apps submitted now will

W3C, Tech Firms Collaborate on Web Platform Site

With help from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Nokia, Adobe, HP, Opera Software and the Mozilla Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched a new website devoted to compiling

Firefox 16 Gets New Features for Developers

The latest update for Firefox doesn’t include a lot that’s new for end users, but it does offer some significant new improvements for developers. For starters, Firefox 16 supports more