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.
Agile software development tool vendor and consultancy ThoughtWorks has published a new “radar report” that attempts to identify trends in the IT industry. The report states that a “seismic shift
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
Oracle has released a new mobile development extension for its Application Development Framework (ADF). Called ADF Mobile, the tool helps enterprise application development pros port their Java apps to iOS
Mobile analytics vendor Flurry has updated its Mobile Apps: Money, Models and Loyalty report that was first published three years ago. Since that time, average 90-day retention rates for mobile
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 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”
At the Tech Ed event in Las Vegas, SAP revealed its plans to create a cloud development platform that will rely on its HANA in-memory database. So far, only one
At the Australian Information Security Association’s National Conference 2012, Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson said many enterprise application development pros don’t pay enough attention to securing their apps.