Funding Daily: Substitute teachers are the worst

Our regular Funding Daily reporter is off this week, sunning her hard-working carcass in Hawaii. You know what that means: No more witty headlines for you!

Appcelerator is going to the bank with yet another big, fat, Sand Hill Road check

The white-hot mobile developer company is stirring a $16 million pot with the help of a few major investment firms.

Appcelerator announces coding conference and hackathon-for-good (exclusive)

Appcelerator, maker of mobile development tool Titanium, is gearing up for Codestrong, its big code conference and hackathon set to take place in San Francisco this October.

In just three months, more than 500 developers will descend on the Intercontinental …

Better location tools for more apps: Geoloqi is now on Appcelerator Titanium

Two of the more interesting companies on the mobile-development landscape are announcing a new deal for developers today, and will be making great tools for location-based apps available for free.

If you’re into mobile development, Appcelerator and Geoloqi are probably …

Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture

We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you. Click each link below to learn more about the day’s funding news.

If you’re hankering for more funding news throughout the day, you can subscribe to our Deals Channel RSS …

Appcelerator gives devs a gateway to mobile cloud services with Titanium 2.0

Appcelerator is doing more than just letting you build mobile apps with the latest version of its mobile development framework, Titanium 2.0. Now the company is also providing an easy way to implement cloud services in your mobile apps — …

Geoloqi adds 3 partnerships, extends reach to 1.6M devs

Geoloqi, a company helping developers add geo-location abilities to their applications, announced three partnerships today that will enable the company to reach to 1.6 million mobile developers.

Geoloqi, which is pronounced geo-low-key, provides tools developers need to add geo-location features …

Fueled by mobile madness, Appcelerator acquires Cocoafish

As long as consumers are crazy about mobile apps, developers will build them — and as long as developers are cranking out mobile apps, companies like Appcelerator will continue to flourish and snap up companies like Cocoafish.

In a nutshell, …

Box.net unveils the Box Innovation Network to spark imaginative enterprise development

Box.net, which provides cloud storage services for the enterprise, announced its third-party developer network today, called the Box Innovation Network, or /bin.

Enterprise apps may not be the sexiest market segment for developers, but these are apps that the biggest, …

The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dustbin of history

“Forget being in love with the open web and all that touchy-feely stuff.”

Jay Sullivan is Mozilla’s vice president of products, and for a spokesperson of one of the open web’s dearest darlings, he’s on a tear.

“If you want …

Appcelerator raises $15M, now largest third-party app publisher on iOS, Android

I’ll skip the obvious “acceleration” puns and just say things are looking good for Appcelerator, maker of a cross-platform app development software.

The company announced today that it has raised $15 million in a third round of funding. It also …

Appcelerator acquires HTML5 platform company Particle Code

HTML5 development platform-maker Particle Code has been
acquired by Appecelerator for an undisclosed sum, the company announced Monday. The deal brings together the business side of the house, as well as deep tech, says Particle Code chief executive officer Galia …