[Disclosure: Xyologic cofounder Matthaus Krzykowski was previously VentureBeat's advisor on mobile issues and remains an occasional contributor.]
It’s almost inevitable that the numbers of Android appsdownloaded will outnumber Apple’s mobile downloads at some point. Xyologic, a startup that indexes and …
Today, Facebook extended Facebook Platform on mobile to give its huge network of third-party developers better tools and more access to on-the-go users.
This news comes directly on the heels of Facebook’s iPad app launch, a long-anticipated event itself.
Noting …
X.commerce, eBay’s developer arm, named the five venture capitalists today who will be involved in next week’s “VC Bait” panel at its Innovate conference.
The Innovate conference, as well as the VC Bait panel, are all about creating for the …
Atlassian, maker of cost-hosting service Bitbucket, has acquired SourceTree, a Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems and Subversion source control.
For a limited time, Atlassian is making SourceTree free for all in an attempt to attract …
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When Facebookers began thinking about the design for Timeline, the name for the new look and feel of Profiles, they reached for books more often than browser tabs.
As a result, while the new Facebook Profiles might look a bit …
Google released a new application programming interface (API) for Google+ today. The API gives developers access to Google+’s search functions. The API remains public-focused and will only allow developers to access public posts as well as people.
Developers use APIs …
Though am by no means a web designer or developer, I often wish I could build a website on my own. That’s why I was intrigued by the new website development tool IM Creator, which lets you quickly design a …
Adobe announced today that it has acquired cloud font site Typekit. Adobe made the announcement just now at its Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles.
Jeffrey Veen (pictured left), chief executive of Typekit, and Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch …
Nimbula, a company ties together public and private cloud resources in a way that companies can manage them easily, this week released the latest version of its software.
Nimbula calls itself a cloud operating system — because it helps its …
This morning, a Microsoft security software program started deleting Google’s Chrome browser from users’ computers.
So far, Microsoft reports that around 3,000 users were affected.
The company has acknowledged the mistake and issued a fix to the software that caused …
Unity Technologies showed off version 3.5 of its 3D game tools today in an effort to widen its reach and help 3D games spread onto all new gaming platforms.
The new update offers more 3D graphics features that will make …
Intel and Samsung are teaming up to create a new open-source operating system based on Linux software. The software will run on multiple kinds of devices under the name Tizen.
The Tizen software will be an amalgam of Intel’s MeeGo …
With its support for both desktops and mobile devices, the latest version of Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system is a radical departure from previous iterations — and something that’s making people talk.
Social media monitoring firm MashWork recently created …
Mozilla released Firefox 7 today, and the new version of makes web browsing faster than ever.
The update is especially helpful for the hardcore web junkies among us who browse with scores of open tabs and browsing sessions that span …
Google Wave was a colossal flop. So why are the founders of Stypi trying to revive the idea of Wave-style collaborative software?
We caught up with the Stypi team at VentureBeat’s San Francisco office and asked them exactly that. This …
Seven developers have emerged from last night’s Twilio’s hackathon to pitch their Twilio-based products in the hopes of winning up to $10,000 in prizes.
It seems every conference has a hackathon these days, an event in which developers band together …
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled some huge changes to the social network and its platform at f8, Facebook’s developer conference.
The tagline for today’s event is “Read. Watch. Listen,” which foreshadows the media features and content consumption and sharing …
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(The King of Code contest is sponsored by Windows Phone and is open to developers on any mobile platform.)
Like many other King of Code finalists, iPhone developer Ricky Robinett got an early start. In middle school, he built a …
Twilio announced today 500 Startup‘s Dave McClure (pictured left) and SV Angel‘s Ron Conway (pictured below, right) started a second $250,000 seed fund for startups built on top of Twilio.
“We’re giving access to some of the best angels in …
DataStax, which sells products built on top of the open source “NoSQL” data store Apache Cassandra, just announced a $11 million investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company also announced a new enterprise product which will be available …
