Twitter makes nice with developers, with a timeline of upcoming changes

Twitter's new calendar of upcoming API changes will help developers avoid nasty surprises.

Adobe launches new cloud-based game development tools

Software giant Adobe is working hard to win over game developers to its Flash platform.

Smartsheet gets $26M to keep enterprise workflow under control

Enterprise collaboration platform Smartsheets raises $26 million to reimagine the spreadsheet.

Rumors: VMWare planning Cloud Foundry spinoff led by Paul Maritz

VMWare is planning to spin off Cloud Foundry and a number of its other products into a separate division owned by corporate parent EMC.

Dropbox thinks it’s like the iPad: Unexpectedly infiltrating the workplace

Dropbox vice president Sujay Jaswa says people should think of Dropbox like the iPad: a technology that may have been aimed at consumers but wound up infiltrating the work world.

Accounting software company Xero zeros in on QuickBooks with $67M

Online accounting software company Xero raises $67 million from venture capitalists, shareholders to take on QuickBooks' US dominance.

Google exec talks Amazon cloud price war: ‘We are happy to compete’

Amit Singh, president of enterprise at Google, is ready to fight. Amazon and Google traded blows this week, each lowering their cloud services prices in response to the other.

Wiki Wiki what? Wikia raises $11M to help people create, collaborate, and be original

Wikia is raising $11 million to support its growing network of pop culture wikis.

The cloud ate my data! Health entrepreneurs say vendors should be liable

At CloudBeat, the healthcare panel kicked off with a harrowing statistic. The vast majority of breast cancer sufferers will not benefit from chemotherapy. And yet, most patients today receive this highly invasive treatment.

According to genetics expert Ken Stineman, over …

Israel vs. Hamas 2.0: when the fighting stopped on the street, it exploded online

Just as the ceasefire was being signed and the rockets and planes stopped flying, all digital hell broke loose online as electronic hacking attacks exploded 2500 percent.

Platform-as-a-service CEOs bet their futures on mainstream PaaS adoption

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is by far the smallest sector of cloud, but four PaaS CEOs think it's about to hit the big time.

Cisco CTO takes on ‘cloudscaling’ upstart in ferocious fireside chat [video]

At VentureBeat’s cloud-focused conference today, we got a real treat: a fascinating fireside chat with two titans of enterprise IT, Lew Tucker and Randy Bias.

Tucker is Cisco’s CTO and vice president of cloud computing, and Bias is the CTO …

Cloud executives feel good about VC investing right now

More is better for cloud executives. The industry is feeling good about cloud investing in the next year, particularly because their technology helps entrepreneurs create many more companies, faster than ever before.

SAP bets big on HANA, its ‘billion dollar’ big data solution

Business software behemoth SAP is betting big on a next generation in-memory database known as "HANA."

VMWare CTO: ‘Things need to change dramatically’ at networking companies

VMWare chief technology officer Stephen Herrod believes in a future filled with choices. And he thinks networking companies better start embracing choice, especially open-source software, or face steep consequences.

“There’s not a networking company in the world that doesn’t realize …

Scanadu unveils “biggest innovation in home medicine since the thermometer”

Today, Scanadu unveiled three health products that help people get in touch with their physical health using mobile, sensor, and social technology.