Watch all of Microsoft’s Build 2012 sessions online

Missed Microsoft's Build conference this year? Now you can watch all of the sessions online at Microsoft's Channel 9 website.

How The Weather Company survived a 1,000% traffic spike during Hurricane Sandy

On Monday, the company was serving 110 gigabytes of data per second, almost without a hiccup, not counting the livestreams -- 170 thousand simultaneous streams of live video, pushed out over the Internet.

Google puts the focus on women tech stars with new web series

Next week, Google is presenting a web video series featuring brilliant, successful women in tech — specifically, women who develop and design technology and applications, and who advocate for more gender balance in our industries.

The series is part of …

How Chartboost’s ad network exploded to serve 8,000 games in 1 year

Chartboost has seen explosive growth as developers try to reduce their user acquisition costs for mobile games.

Black Girls Hack creates #blackhack: a hackathon for black women programmers

What do you do when you can't find a cofounder? Or, when not enough people in your demographic are programmers, much less startup founders?

Microsoft releases Team Foundation Service, a project, source, and build management tool for developers

And, it's free for teams up to five -- or those with a MSDN subscription.

Microsoft demos simple cloud-enabling of mobile apps with Azure Mobile Services

Looking to cloud-enable your mobile app? Looks like Microsoft can help make that a lot easier.

Web designers, rejoice: Monotype buys Typecast, more webfonts to follow

An oldster in the type business gets in bed with a youngster, and the May-December union is sure to bring many beautiful type-babies into the world. Mazel tov!

Why Build is Microsoft’s most important event ever

Never before has Microsoft so desperately needed to prove itself -- perhaps because it’s never been in such a precarious position.

Zend’s Andi Gutmans on PHP 6 & how Apple is the ‘biggest barrier’ to mobile’s future

"I believe web technologies will ultimately win within 3-5 years. The main barrier today is probably Apple."