Today, Facebook announced it is opening up its fancy, redesigned data centers to help hardware hackers learn from and improve on their designs.
The Open Compute Foundation, announced today, will allow anyone to access the designs and specifications for Facebook’s …
Social network Hi5 has cut 28 jobs after completing a migration from open source servers to ones based on Microsoft’s .Net software. The move was part of a larger plan to shift the social network toward social gaming and commerce.…
This week, three surprising scenarios emerged in initial depositions in the ongoing Google/Oracle lawsuit.
First, a Google engineer admitted he may have copied Sun’s code in his work on Android.
Also, Google documents show the company worked to give Motorola …
Enterprise software provider MapR announced a $20 million second round of funding today, with the goal of making Hadoop easier for companies to use.
Hadoop is open source software that allows companies to store data on clusters of cheaper servers …
Editor's Pick
This is the second of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. The first installment focused on hardware. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir …
Editor's Pick
This is the first of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir Michael, about how the company is …
Technology company incubator YouWeb has spawned incredibly successful social and mobile game companies. Now the Burlingame, Calif.-based incubator has raised $2 million in funding for itself.
YouWeb is raising the money from existing investors to help fuel its expansion. The …
Though several reports have suggested users can download the new Mozilla Firefox 6 browser early from the company’s FTP server, Mozilla says that version is not final and the real build will be available tomorrow.
“As part of Mozilla’s open …
This article is part of a series of posts about DEMO alumni and news of their progress. Network Hippo launched at DEMO in Spring 2010. Check out more at DEMO.
The idea of an open-source website is not new, but …
Cloud-infrastructure startup Nebula envisions a day when every company will be able to implement cloud computing as easily as plugging into a an electrical utility.
By taking advantage of open source technologies, the company hopes to create hardware appliances with …
Cloud9, a cloud-based app-development startup, closed a $5.5 million first round of funding from Accel Partners and Atlassian Software, the company announced today.
Cloud9 is a web-based programming environment for developers to create and run both web and mobile applications …
Typesafe, a maker of software development tools for the Scala programming language, has raised $3 million in a first round of funding.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company is also introducing today its open source Typesafe Stack, which integrates the most recent …
To increase the power efficiency of its data centers, Facebook decided to build its servers for its Pineville, Ore., data center from scratch.
And it looks like the plan worked. Facebook’s latest data center in Oregon will use 38 percent …
He’s about a week late, but Google’s Android head Andy Rubin has finally responded in a blog post to claims that the platform is becoming less open now that Google is reportedly exerting more control over how manufacturers use Android …
10gen, developer of the open-source software for databases called MongoDB, announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in its third round of funding from Sequoia Capital.
MongoDB is billed as a software set for managing large-scale databases for web …
Open source programmers who have been working to keep Google Wave alive hit a significant milestone today by submitting their open source Wave code to the Apache Software Foundation, The Register reports.
After a rocky launch and apparent difficulties in …
Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams has stepped down from his position citing “personal reasons”, Mobile Industry Review reports.
The foundation is a non-profit organization, founded in June 2008, that spearheads the development of the Symbian mobile operating system. Williams served …
Diaspora, the open-sourced Facebook alternative initiated by four New York University students, will be launching in three weeks, its creators announced in a blog post today.
The project garnered a large amount of press back in May when it raised …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: John Caplan is the founder and CEO of OpenSky, an e-marketplace site. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
When I was CEO of Ford Models, thousands of talented men and women came through our door, each looking to …
Lucid Imagination, a company that provides support, training and consulting for open source search technologies Lucene and Solr, today announced it has secured a second round of funding for $10 million.
The company offers various software and solutions to organizations …
