Amazon Web Services (AWS) reigns supreme as the developer platform of choice while Windows Azure is showing impressive growth, according to a survey conducted by Forrester Research. The third-quarter survey compares how cloud developers are using the cloud. The report looks at the potential growth of the different services; the state of the platform as […]
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Some good news for embattled smartphone maker RIM: the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has said it plans to test BlackBerry 10 devices next year, Reuters is reporting. A spokeswoman for the BlackBerry maker told the news agency that ICE will begin a pilot program on RIM’s new line of BlackBerry 10 smartphones and BlackBerry Enterprise Service […]
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Dell has a new platform as a service (PaaS) and it actually makes sense. The service is called Project Fast PaaS, part of the new Dell Cloud Labs, which also includes Project Sputnik, the Linux laptop for developers and Crowbar, and the open-source cloud deployment framework that Dell originally created to support its “OpenStack- and Hadoop-powered offerings.” […]
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It’s been a big year for the artist formerly known as GOGII. Back in October, the Southern California-based startup raised $18 million in series D financing from The Raine Group, Kleiner Perkins, Matrix Partners and GRP, bringing its total investment to just over $46 million. The round was a testament to the continuing success of […]
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Bill.com is opening the data behind the business with a new application platform powered by open APIs for third-party developers. The new platform allows developers to integrate native apps with Bill.com’s software so finance professionals can access more information from individual customer transactions in real time. The new application platform gives third-party developers access to […]
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Janco Associates has found that the IT jobs market has seen its fair share of highs and lows over the last year. However, with technology becoming more important, the landscape is growing stronger and the most recent stats support this fact. According to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the IT job […]
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YouTube first launched its Data API back in 2007, and it has since become the video giant’s most popular API in terms of request volume. Today, YouTube announced that it has officially opened version 3.0 of its API to all developers. The new APIs bring a number of important changes to bear on its current […]
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Patrick Husting runs a small development shop, ExtendedResults where he sells a product called PUSHBI, a mobile business intelligence app. While the app was popular on iOS and Android, he found some interesting results when he moved it onto Windows 8 – his sales, once flat on Windows, went up to the tune of 2,500 […]
Posted on December 14th, 2012 by admin
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According to multiple sources, Cisco has taken a secretive role as the “Unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan” in a $31 million round for WhipTail, a flash storage company that also took investment from SanDisk and others The Series C round of funding included investment from Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital. Silicon Valley Bank provided […]
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Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. “In the Studio” approaches the end of 2012 by welcoming the type of entrepreneur that doesn’t end up in the tech blogs very often, if ever, […]
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