Tech hiring slumps as Software Developer job postings fall
Monday, April 13, 2026 by Richard Harris
A noticeable downshift is emerging in the technology labor market as software developer job postings cool from prior highs. Employers are recalibrating hiring plans, focusing their open roles on business critical initiatives and slowing requisitions tied to speculative growth. While demand for skilled engineers remains significant in absolute terms, the pace of new post...
Disney sues AI firm MiniMax with Warner Bros Discovery and NBCU
Monday, September 22, 2025 by Richard Harris
Disney, Universal (Comcast), and Warner Bros Discovery have jointly filed a lawsuit against China-based AI company MiniMax, claiming its Hailuo AI service uses copyrighted characters without authorization. The complaint, submitted in a California district court, alleges that MiniMax generated images and videos of well-known characters including Darth Vader, Minions, and...
College is not necessary for big tech jobs
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 by Austin Harris
Code, culture, and competitive edge: Who’s winning the engineering talent game? Every Engineering Leader Wants to Build a Company That Attracts Top Developers
In 2025, attracting top developers is more challenging than ever. A competitive pay package is table stakes, remote flexibility is expected, and AI is reshaping how teams operate and what engineers value.
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AI theft leads WalletHub to remove 40k pages from Google
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 by Austin Harris
In response to AI companies using publishers’ content without compensation, WalletHub announced today that it has removed 40,000 pages of financial content from the reach of Google and other AI search engines. This content will now be exclusively available to logged-in WalletHub users.
AI theft leads WalletHub to remove 40k pages from Google index plus new AI s...
Google app fees lawsuit approved by UK court
Friday, June 20, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (‘CAT’) has made an order certifying a £1 billion legal claim against Google on behalf of UK app developers that have allegedly been overcharged by Google for using its Play Store. The case can now proceed to trial, with thousands of businesses poised to receive compensation for the loss in revenue suffered as a result o...
Apple lawsuit filed by UK developers
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 by Austin Harris
A leading competition law expert pursuing a class action lawsuit against Apple on behalf of UK app developers has been told his case can go ahead, with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) certifying his claim for £785m (just over one billion US dollars) on behalf of UK app developers. Today, the CAT made the collective proceedings order, confirming it...
AI Audit tool launched by Cloudflare for content creators
Saturday, September 28, 2024 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare, Inc., the connectivity cloud company, announced the launch of AI Audit, a suite of tools designed to help websites of all sizes analyze and manage how their content is utilized by artificial intelligence (AI) models. This initiative enables website and content creators to quickly understand how AI model providers are using their content and to control whethe...
UK android app developers file class action suit against Google
Thursday, September 12, 2024 by Austin Harris
A leading competition law expert, Professor Barry Rodger, has filed a legal claim worth up to E1.04 billion against Google before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”). Google is accused of abusing its dominant position to the detriment of a large class of thousands of UK app developers who need to use its app marketplace, ‘Play Store’ or &l...
Social engineering takeover attacks are on the rise
Thursday, April 18, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
OpenSSF and the OpenJS Foundation (home to JavaScript projects used by billions of websites worldwide) are alerting open-source project maintainers of social engineering takeover attacks, following new attack attempts they’ve witnessed similar to the XZ Utils incident.
The OpenJS Cross Project Council received suspicious emails, imploring OpenJS to update one o...
The mobile app market is still growing to hit 571 billion by 2030
Monday, October 16, 2023 by Richard Harris
The increasing status of other mobile devices and smartphones, the rising demand for mobile apps in various industries, such as healthcare, gaming, education, and retail, the growing adoption of mobile payment and other mobile commerce solutions, the increasing use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in mobile apps. The mobile app market is also expected to ...
2022 development productivity predictions
Monday, January 17, 2022 by Richard Harris
Brian Rue is the CEO and Co-founder of Rollbar, an SF-based provider of real-time error monitoring Software as a Service, where he leads the company’s overall strategy and direction. Brian founded the company with Cory Virok in 2012. Prior to Rollbar, Brian was the CTO and Co-founder of Lolapps, a leading publisher of independent games on social networks and mobil...
Automated testing in 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022 by Richard Harris
Ajay Dawar, Alok Kulkarni, James Isaacs, and Linda Chen from Cyara discuss their 2022 predictions about real-time quality assurance, adopting automated testing, balancing employee experience and innovation, how to deliver innovative customer experiences, why AI won't displace humans for customer support, how enterprises can achieve digital transformation success, an...
Nylas expands operations in Europe
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 by Richard Harris
Nylas announced that one of Europe and the world’s leading e-commerce platforms have selected Nylas to quickly, securely, and automatically connect real-time communications data into their application. With Nylas’s Email and Neural APIs, this fintech enterprise can more intelligently extract and structure data from the more than 2 million transactions on the...
The true potential of blockchain as seen from Ethan Beard
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 by Richard Harris
Ripple offers the most advanced blockchain technology for global payments that reaches a trusted, growing network of 300+ financial institutions across 40+ countries and
six continents. Ripple’s open-source developer platform for money, Xpring, allows both crypto and non-crypto developers to integrate payments into any mobile application—with a wallet, new ...
FTC cracks down on comprehensive data security for Utah company
Thursday, November 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
A Utah-based technology company has agreed to implement a comprehensive data security program to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company failed to put in place reasonable security safeguards, which allowed a hacker to access the personal information of a million consumers.
InfoTrax Systems, L.C., provides back-end operation services to multi-leve...
Tech salaries in 2019 report is out
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 by Richard Harris
Career marketplace Hired released its fourth annual State of Salaries research report. The data looks at tech salaries in top global business hubs and analyzes how they’ve changed, how they fare when considering the cost of living, which industries pay the most, and how race and age impact compensation.
Other cities are giving SF a run for its money
The aver...
DevOps salary report for 2019 is here
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
Glassdoor reports that a DevOps Engineer's average base salary is $143k / year - not too shabby considering the role is fairly new and still evolving. To get more insight we turn to the latest DevOps salary report from Puppet that just released. The report, based on over 3,000 responses collected through the 2018 State of DevOps survey, examines a myriad of factors ...
iOS 12 subscription based app tips for success
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 by Eran Kinsbruner
Last year, Apple held a secret meeting with a select group of iOS app developers in New York to talk about changing the current app delivery model from one-time purchases to subscription-based. From Apple’s view, these one-time purchases typically are inexpensive ($1-2), yet grant end-users unlimited access to the app and support, which can prove to be costly from...
Constellation blockchain microservice OS releases base code
Friday, August 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Constellation Labs announced the release of their testnet - the first version (V1) of Constellation’s base code. This launch begins a process of building out a small network of nodes, which communicate with each other in order to prevent “bad actors” on the system. The testnet’s primary goal is to accomplish both the handling and validation of ba...
New FPS game lets your earn ERC20 tokens while you play
Thursday, July 5, 2018 by Austin Harris
Game players can use WAR FIELD’s GOLDER (GLDR) - an ERC20-compliant, Ethereum-based cryptographic token - to stake on their character’s “life”. GOLDER are available exclusively at warfield.com during the company’s Token Sale/ICO, which starts June 28.
Players then compete in deathmatch games. Simply put: the winners get GOLDER from ...
Blockchain token compensation model meets testing environment
Thursday, June 28, 2018 by Austin Harris
Constellation Labs announced the launch of its flagship product, Orion, a membership portal to the Constellation ecosystem that will serve as a platform where the Constellation team, developers, and community members can communicate, share resources, and contribute to the network within a token compensation model. Constellation token holders will be able to stake tokens...
Live streaming your game to get paid
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Mobcrush has unveiled its new ‘Go Live, Get Paid’ platform, a set of free tools and features that enable any mobile gamer to reach and grow an audience, where they can earn anything from $15 to $2,500 an hour for live streaming their gameplay. A new survey conducted by an analyst firm DFC Intelligence and commissioned by Mobcrush found that while only 14 percent of game...
This blockchain smart speaker pays musicians when you clap
Thursday, January 11, 2018 by Austin Harris
Today, the Musicoin Project and ROCKI announce the development of Volareo, the world’s first “smart” speaker powered by blockchain technology. Volareo allows users to listen to a lifetime of free music while providing instant compensation to musicians.Harnessing the Musicoin blockchain, the Volareo smart speaker honors creativity with royalties that make today’s popular...
DevOps IT salary report reveals shifting employment priorities
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 by Austin Harris
Puppet has released the findings of its fourth annual DevOps Salary Report. The salary report, based on 3,200 responses collected through the 2017 State of DevOps survey, shows how compounding factors, including geographic region, industry and the number of servers managed, are influencing compensation.The report found that IT professionals overseeing the largest enviro...
Apttus Incentive Compensation Management is now generally available
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 by Austin Harris
Apttus, a Quote-to-Cash solution provider, has announced the general availability of its Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) solution. ICM is an enterprise solution that enables organizations to design and execute strategic sales incentive programs (commissions, bonuses, SPIFFs, contests, etc.) that align the behaviors of sales representatives and partner sellers wi...
Social media influencer marketing through the eyes of #HASHOFF
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 by Richard Harris
The advertising industry is constantly looking for more innovative methods to challenge the way that traditional advertising is done. As the market becomes more and more saturated, target audiences are becoming turned off to previously effective methods - such as tv commercials, web banners, and interstitial videos. One important avenue of marketing that has evolved fro...
The workforequity model as expounded by Loom
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Critics of companies offering the “work-for-equity” model accuse them of being exploitative; in their minds, “work-for-equity” = work for free. Supporters of the model point to its opportunities for developers to gain a more significant business stake in something they believe in. No matter where you stand, there’s something everyone can agree on: the issue is polarizin...
Hey Coach! Square Peg
Monday, October 10, 2016 by Philippe Sauve
Welcome back to the coaching post that looks at teams and the complex environment around us. This time we shall discuss the not-too-controversial topic of keeping track of work.Too often, tracking time and logging work related information has been used to enforce work schedules and dishing out “punishment” to those who don’t put in the hours. Here we describe “puni...
Adpocolypse or Not, Now is the Time for App Publishers to Shore Up Advertising Strategies
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 by Pavel Golubev
Earlier this month, PageFair released a report stating one in five mobile devices worldwide is now using ad blocking. Among the most surprising findings: both mobile web and in-app ads can now be blocked. Leveraging technologies that allow them to skirt Play Store policies, ad blockers are now available to block third-party ads specifically in apps, on both Android and ...
College Graduates Are Frustrated With the Developer Recruiting Process
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Devpost has released the second edition of its annual Student Hacker Report, which takes a look at how students feel about, look for, and evaluate their tech career options. More than 1,700 college students from at 80 hackathons across the U.S. were surveyed about expected compensation and longevity expectations, what students value most when evaluating a job or in...
Developers Dominate for Highest Paying Tech Jobs as Market Continues to Grow
Friday, May 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
A recent Forbes report shows that developers lead the way in overall compensation among tech jobs. In fact, the report shows that the top ten highest paying jobs are all for developer employment covering popular technologies and programming skills.Here are the ten paying developer jobs with average salaries offered in the Forbes report:Software Architect – $116,267...
The Current State of IT Hiring and Employment in the United States
Thursday, April 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
According to a recent report, compensation for all IT professionals has increased by 1.39% between January 2015 and January 2016. The data was made available through the 2016 IT Salary Survey which is produced by Janco and eJobDescription.com.The report shows that the total mean compensation for all IT professionals increased from $81,583 to $82,483. In large enterprise...
IBM's Insight 2015 Will Delve Deep Into Data, Analytics, IoT and More
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
IBM’s Insight 2015 will be held on October 25 - October 29 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas as the company explores the newest innovations, industry breakthroughs and trends in analytics, cloud, mobile, the Internet of Things and its Watson technology.The conference will examine how companies are using IBM data and analytics solutions and how smart data discovery uses guide...
Hired.com Reinvents the Recruiting Process for Software Developers and DevOps Engineers
Thursday, February 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It sounds like a simple idea - matching top developer talent with top companies - curating both sides so that each is assured that they are getting exactly the match they are looking for. And it’s interesting that no-one has come up with an approach in the way that Hired.com has done. So what is unique about their platform? Before discussing how Hired.com matches c...
Why You Should Get Your App Endorsed By a Mommy Blogger
Thursday, June 19, 2014 by Artyom Dogtiev
You may not realize it, but - on average - you encounter product endorsements a couple times each day. Watching TV, walking by into your local mall, launching the Facebook app on your smartphone - these are all places where consumers intersect with product endorsements.
The concept behind product endorsements is an age old one: Using the celebrity of an individual to...
