Market researcher firm Gartner has released a new report which predicts the platform as a service (PaaS) segment of the cloud computing industry is about to take off. Last year,
Microsoft recently announced major changes to SharePoint as an application development platform. It rolled out new tools designed to make it easier to create SharePoint apps and revealed that SharePoint
The mobile development industry is currently embroiled in a battle between those who think that Web-based applications built with HTML5 technology will eventually prevail and those who believe native applications
According to Appsfire, Apple’s App Store passed a major milestone on Monday: 1 million apps approved since the store’s inception in July 2008. While Apple is unlikely to acknowledge the
Continuity, a Palo Alto-based started that provides tools for big data application development, has announced that it has raised $10 million from venture capital firms, including Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners,
As the countdown continues for RIM’s January 30 launch of BlackBerry 10, the company continues to push developers to get involved with the platform. The latest effort is the BlackBerry
Oracle has bought a minority stake in platform as a service provider Engine Yard. San Francisco-based Engine Yard offers a cloud development platform that runs on Amazon and Terremark cloud
In July of this year, Microsoft bought enterprise social networking vendor Yammer for $1.2 billion, and since then, the larger firm has begun adopting some of Yammer’s software development practices.
October was a particularly good month for startups related to the mobile development industry. Several well-known venture capital firms made significant investments in firms that offer development, testing and analytics