Dylan’s Desk: How apps are chipping away at the open Web

Corporations have found a way to roll back the web's decades-long openness. One of of the most successful? Apple, whose quarterly earnings report lands later today.

Gizmox closes $7.5M round for enterprise-class mobile web tech

The mobile web shift is happening rapidly for all kinds of consumer apps, but business apps have been left a bit out in the cold. Gizmox hopes to fix that.

Kik Messenger raises $19.5M as it aims to lead the HTML5 revolution

Only a few weeks after hitting 50 million users, the popular mobile messaging service Kik has received a new chunk of funding to fuel its impressive growth.

Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps

"There are a few things that are critically missing. One is tooling support. The second is operability. Because those two things don't exist, people are falling back to native. It's not that HTML5 isn't ready; it's that the ecosystem doesn't support it."

Netflix plans first steps to move from Silverlight to HTML5

With Microsoft planning to end support for its Silverlight video plugin by 2021, Netflix has begun to shift towards using HTML5 for video playback.

The mobile war is over and the app has won: 80% of mobile time spent in apps

Only 20 percent of American consumers' time on mobile devices is spent on the web. A massive majority, 80 percent, is spent in apps: games, news, productivity, utility, and social networking apps.

Messaging app taps HTML5 so you can text any platform — even web browsers

How do you stand out from the plethora messaging apps out there? For Chorus.im, it's by aiming for something more than just a messaging app.

Ludei opens door for creating cross-platform 3D web-based games

Ludei has more than games on its 2D HTML5 platform, and now it is moving to 3D.

Tim Berners-Lee: ‘You can do anything with a computer that you can imagine’

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, spent an hour enthusiastically exhorting a crowd at SXSW to use HTML5 and build applications on the Open Web Platform. He also offered a host of pithy comments on the Web's history and future.

This startup is trying to take the mobile web where Google, Facebook, et al. have failed to go

Famo.us is attempting to change the game with a few different technology tools that could redefine how we see the mobile web.

5,000 developers say HTML5 is real, it’s now, and yeah, it’s also the future

Only 15 percent of developers would go native-only when building an app for multiple platforms.

What developers do with HTML5 (infographic)

70 percent of North American developers are already using HTML5, as are roughly 60 percent of South American, European, and Chinese developers.

Mozilla makes strides with mobile-oriented Firefox OS

The Mozilla Foundation announced a greatly expanded lineup of hardware and carrier partners for its upcoming HTML-based Firefox OS yesterday at Mobile World Congress.

Intel hauls appMobi’s ‘HTML5 dev ecosystem’ into its own

Intel has reportedly acquired appMobi, scooping up the talent and the tech, to build out its own mobile development tools.

Game Closure launches free tools for anyone to build fast mobile-web games

After two years of development, Game Closure publicly releases its HTML5-Javascript hybrid tool for gamemakers.

Here’s the scorecard on our 2012 predictions for the game industry

Before you read our forecast for 2013, take a look at how we did on last year's predictions.

Brainshark’s new HTML5 mobile player opens up presentations to iOS, Android viewers

Now you can share Brainshark presentations with any iOS or Android user -- no app required.