AI app store optimization services from SplitMetrics and App Radar
Thursday, November 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
SplitMetrics, an American startup specializing in app growth solutions, has acquired App Radar, an Austrian app marketing and analytics platform in a seven-figure all-cash deal.
The agreement creates the industry’s largest platform providing AI-powered services including paid user acquisition (UA), app store optimization (ASO), conversion rate optimization...
CircleCI announced the findings of 2020 State of Software Delivery
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI announced the findings of a new report, 2020 State of Software Delivery: Data-Backed Benchmarks for Engineering Teams.
“As the world’s largest standalone CI provider, we have a unique opportunity to investigate what software delivery looks like quantitatively: across tens of thousands of teams, commit by commit. So, we looked to data from 11 mill...
IBM is buying Red Hat: What they want you to know
Monday, October 29, 2018 by Richard Harris
IBM announced plans to acquire Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source technology for approximately $34B.
According to Mergermarket data, this is the second-largest computer software deal ever recorded globally, which dates back to 1998.
As IBM’s most significant acquisition, and the most significant tech acquisition of 201...
Machine learning for the banking industry helps reduce criminal risk
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mindtree is using artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help banks improve their ability to detect financial crimes and enhance reconciliation management. These service offerings are made possible through a partnership with Tookitaki's machine-learning-powered platform.
Banks and other financial institutions are challenged by both the rising ...
Hazelcast introduces a Flake ID Generator in IMDG 3.10
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Hazelcast has announced that Hazelcast IMDG 3.10 is generally available as a production ready build. Major themes, which have been driven by open source community input, include the release of a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT), a Flake ID Generator and several split-brain protection enhancements.
IMDG 3.10 is the first version of Hazelcast IMDG to include a...
Three enterprise app providers that are leveraging social media
Friday, October 28, 2016 by Natalie Lambert
Let’s face it. Social media has become an integral part of everyday life, enabling near-instant communication and updates with friends located around the globe. The ease at which people can quickly pick up and learn social media apps like Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter has not gone unnoticed by the enterprise software community, and businesses have discovered that repl...
As Apple's Encryption Deadline Looms, Openwave Mobility Launches SmartidM
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Austin Harris
Openwave Mobility has announced the launch of Smart Identity Manager (SmartidM) for mobile operators to effectively manage their subscribers’ data, and launch new services. SmartidM is part of the company’s Subscriber Data Management (SDM) portfolio of products. Use cases for SmartidM include centralized ID management for fraud prevention, delivering BingeOn...
Must Have Apps for this Sunday's Big Game
Friday, February 5, 2016 by Richard Harris
(Contributed By Amazon Appstore Editors) More than 110 million viewers are expected to tune in to watch this Sunday’s Big Game, making it the biggest sporting event in the country. However, preparing for the game starts well before Sunday. After a long, exciting season, two teams will battle it out in the trenches while the rest of the country cheers on from their ...
Salesforce Launches Developer Pack for Apple Watch
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
On the heals of the announcement of the release date for the Apple Watch, Salesforce has announced three products for developers interested in leveraging the new technology. These include the Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple Watch, Salesforce1 for Apple Watch and Salesforce Wear Developer Pack for Apple Watch. Salesforce Analytics Cloud for Apple WatchSalesforc...
Salesforce Introduces New Cloud Analytics Platform
Monday, October 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Salesforce has launched a new analytics platform named Wave - the Salesforce Analytics Cloud. Wave is a cloud analytics platform designed to allow companies to deploy sales, service and marketing analytics, or build custom mobile analytics apps, using any data source. The Wave Analytics Cloud was developed to help companies explore any data source, uncover insights...
Good Technology Offers New Cloud Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Solutions
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Good Technology has announced the availability of Good Work, an easy-to-deploy, cloud-hosted or on-premise secure enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution for businesses of all sizes, designed to accelerate entire deployments and enable users with secure mobile productivity. In addition, the company also announced Good Secure Mobile Productivity Suite, an all-in-on...
Famo.us for App Development: Going Beyond the Funding Hype
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
If we’ve seen one, we’ve seen a hundred news releases come across our email: “XYZ company has announced that it has received VC funding.” We always toss these, because really, do you care that some company (not yours) has received funding?So when Famo.us announced their recent $25 million in additional funding, you know where that announcement went. However, there has b...
AnyAuth from built.io Provides Mobile Developers a Preferred Login Mechanism to Authenticate Users
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
To help developers add additional security functionality, built.io has introduced a new product, AnyAuth, which allows enterprise app developers to use their preferred login mechanism to authenticate users.The new offering builds on built.io’s ability to offer authentication via Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as enterprise social networks like tibbr, Chatter and...
Getting Your App World Ready
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Dawni Jacobs
In a certain sense, "getting your app world-ready" sounds much more descriptive than "internationalizing your app," but they both refer to the same thing. Here is what it's about in a nutshell: Surely someone in your extended family is a passionate gardener. If you ask her what she does before she plants her flowers or vegetables, she'll give you a long (and most l...
App pocalypse: Millions of Pointless Apps
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
Jeff Atwood (Co-founder of stackexchange.com and discourse.org) has written a great piece (and a bit of a rant) on the state of the app ecosystem as he sees it. I share it with you here because there are some profound truths in his points - especially in the chatter regarding how cluttered the app stores are becoming with apps that don't do anything more than a we...
Weekly Roundup: Apple Developer Outage, Jellybean 4.3, Amazon and Windows Phone, Unity and Blackberry 10, and GDC 2014
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
From the Editors DeskThis weekend is the last weekend before the August issue release and there has been no shortage of news to cover! From the Apple outage, to the Android 4.3 Jellybean update this week has been one for the books! We won't be publishing a podcast this week, while put all of our efforts towards putting the finishing touches on the August issue, but we'l...
Apple Developer Website Hacked!
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
In an unprecedented absence from the world, the Apple developer website (developer.apple.com) is going on a week of being offline to developers and the chatter is starting to come to a rumble as anxious apple developers await the re-opening of the portal that breathes life into many of their apps.
It all started sometime last week when the developer website suddenly ...
App design and what you should know about it
Saturday, December 1, 2012 by Richard Harris
Recently the makers of the infamous Instagram app spoke at the 500Startups event. They spoke to eager developers wanting to know how they created such a fluid user experience and what went into their overall design. Here is what they had to say:Understand what you are makingDon't just come up with an idea then start coding it without really thinking it through. You shou...
