A new technology industry lobbying group called fwd.us wants the government to allow more highly skilled workers from foreign countries into the United States. Created by Mark Zuckerburg, Bill Gates,

Hadoop solutions provider AtScale has released the results of a new survey which found that 76 percent of enterprises either already use Hadoop or plan to do so. Most (69

InfoWorld has announced this year’s winners of its annual Best of Open Source Software, or BOSSIE, Awards. The list of application development tools winning the award has a lot of

IBM has launched a new cloud computing service for automakers that it is calling Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive. It will gather data from vehicle sensors so that it

At the Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is announcing its new Internet of Things Cloud service. ?We are watching the increasing volume of data coming off of connected devices, and we are

Google has released a beta version of Bazel, the tool it uses internally to automate software builds and testing, under an open-source license. Bazel is similar to Ant and Maven,

IBM has purchased StrongLoop, a company that sold API development tools and employed many of the top contributors to Node.js. IBM plans to integrate StrongLoop’s technology into its software offerings

Salesforce has announced App Cloud, a new offering that it says is the next generation of its Salesforce 1 Platform. App Cloud includes the Heroku Enterprise cloud development platform, the

Cloudera has launched a new One Platform Initiative which aims to improve Spark and turn it into the primary execution engine for Hadoop. Cloudera has long championed Spark, but some

DevOps framework maker Chef has announced that it has raised an additional $40 million in funding, bringing its total to more than $100 million. Key investors included DFJ Growth, Hewlett-Packard

Although Oracle has not confirmed the reports, people posting to Twitter and Reddit claim that Oracle has eliminated the positions of its entire staff of Java evangelists. One Tweet said,

Microsoft has confirmed reports that it will purchase Adallom, a cloud computing security vendor headquartered in Israel. Industry watchers peg the value of the deal between $250 million and $320

BlackBerry has purchased mobility management software vendor Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Once a leading smartphone vendor, BlackBerry is now concentrating on enterprise mobility software after seeing its

Microsoft Azure has announced two new additions to its cloud computing services. First, it is now offering GS-series virtual machines (VMs) which combine its high-powered G-Series VMs with premium storage.

At the VMworld 2015 event this week, Dell unveiled a number of updates and additions to its hybrid cloud computing portfolio. It announced Active System Manager 8.1.1., which now integrates

Microsoft has launched a new set of development tools called Office UI Fabric, which will make it easier to create add-ins for Microsoft Office. Office add-ins are written in HTML

Cisco and Apple have announced that they are working together on a new strategic initiative aimed at enterprise mobile. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will optimize its networking

TechCrunch has posted an interesting analysis of successful enterprise software as a service companies. They looked at 66 leading SaaS firms that either went public or were acquired with a

Until today, organizations writing apps for Android Auto had to spend a lot of money buying a vehicle or at least a head unit in order to test their apps.

Market research firm Strategy Analytics has published a new report that predicts a 185 percent increase in tablet sales this year. It says that enterprise demand will lead to more