Raised H-1B costs may shift tech jobs to U.S. Developers
Monday, October 6, 2025 by Richard Harris
A new requirement imposing a $100,000 annual fee on many H-1B visa petitions has reshaped the debate about how U.S. companies recruit technology talent. The measure applies broadly to employers hiring or renewing foreign workers and significantly increases the financial burden on businesses that depend on this visa category.
What the new rule changes
The fee appli...
RadQuest web3 gamified onboarding platform lands from Radix
Thursday, August 8, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Radix launches RadQuest, a fully mobile-ready Web3 gamified onboarding platform designed to enable anyone to easily and confidently use Web3 and DeFi on Radix. RadQuest is the latest milestone in Radix’s Breakout2024, a year of initiatives designed to build momentum in the ecosystem.
Built-in collaboration with leading digital product studio ustwo, developers o...
TikTok ban: A developers guide
Monday, March 18, 2024 by Austin Harris
In the event of a comprehensive prohibition of TikTok across the United States, the ramifications for the digital ecosystem would be substantial, necessitating immediate and strategic responses from both the developer community and the platform's extensive user base. This scenario would require a multifaceted approach to compliance, with developers in particular fac...
App store predictions for 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Bitrise, and Jason Beres, SVP of Developer Tools at Infragistics share their 2022 predictions and trends to look out for with No-code/low-code tools and alternative app stores.
App Store Predictions for 2022
Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Bitrise:
Super apps will appear in the West. Achieving success in the App Stores has become...
Mobile games that generated over $1B in 2021
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Richard Harris
Mobile games are some of the biggest money churners in the video gaming market, and the latest report from SafeBettingSites confirms the same. According to the report, eight different mobile games have generated more than a Billion dollars from App Store and Google Play in 2021. The top two games in the list have even crossed the 2 Billion dollar mark in globa...
Lawsuit from US developers sways Apple
Friday, August 27, 2021 by Richard Harris
Apple has announced a number of changes coming to the App Store that, pending court approval, will resolve a class-action suit from US developers. The terms of the agreement will help make the App Store an even better business opportunity for developers while maintaining the safe and trusted marketplace users love. Apple appreciates the developer feedback and ideas that...
TIBCO's cloud platform gets improvements
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by Richard Harris
TIBCO Software Inc. has new and enhanced capabilities for the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud platform at the TIBCO NOW Global Tour 2019 event in Singapore. Empowered with these systems, businesses are able to connect disparate data, govern their information effectively, and augment the resulting intelligence. Critical collaboration between various per...
NVIDIA's new TITAN RTX is a deep learning beast aimed at developers
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has just announced the TITAN RTX - dubbed T-Rex, driven by NVIDIA Turing architecture at a conference in Montreal. The new card delivers 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA says, "Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade, fusing shaders, ray tracing, a...
Web professionals reporting client growth says GoDaddy
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
A survey of web developers and designers finds that the web professional industry continues to boom two decades after the emergence of the Internet. Rapid growth in clients is fueled by the retail and travel industries, according to a new global research study commissioned by GoDaddy.The industry study, conducted in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, India, Bra...
The BlackBerry Dynamics Launcher makes enterprise mobility relevant
Monday, June 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
Appdome, a cloud hub for mobile app integration, has announced the expansion of its automated service for BlackBerry Dynamics to include the BlackBerry Dynamics Launcher. The launcher offers a secure mobile desktop as an overlay to mobile apps, making business apps and tasks easily accessible and actionable in one place. Appdome now allows enterprise users - developers ...
App customer loyalty: 3 things to look for in a loyalty API
Tuesday, February 14, 2017 by Christopher Barnard
For the modern consumer, rewards are an essential part of their shopping experience; just last year the number of loyalty program memberships in the United States topped three billion - a 26 percent increase from 2013. With a growing demand for loyalty programs, there is no better time for developers to incorporate loyalty into their products, apps, point of sale softwa...
Mobile games market generated $40.6 billion in worldwide revenue in 2016
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
First ever joint look at mobile, mobile VR and VR markets by SuperData Research and Unity Technologies shows the category equaling that of global box office sales during that time The mobile games market generated $40.6 billion in worldwide revenue in 2016 - a sum equivalent to all global box office sales during the same time period - and grew 18% over the year bef...
SAP HANA express edition and key benefits developers should know about
Saturday, October 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SAP, a large independent software developer, has released it's latest edition of HANA, an in-memory computing PaaS, called HANA express edition. SAP HANA can be used as an on-premise appliance, or for building and deploying to the cloud. A great tool for any real-time application development or analytics projects. The SAP HANA express edition gives developers all of th...
Open Source Ansible Community Will Converge at AnsibleFest in San Francisco on July 28
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
The popular open source automation platform Ansible will be the focus of AnsibleFest in San Francisco on Thursday, July 28, 2016. The event offers a day-long conference bringing together hundreds of Ansible users, developers and industry partners to share best-practices, case studies and Ansible news.AnsibleFest is for anyone who is wants to learn more or shar...
New Survey Provides Insights Into Most Popular Languages for Translating Apps
Thursday, June 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
One Hour Translation has released the results of a new survey which provides insights into the most popular languages that English-language apps are translated into by app publishers in the United States and United Kingdom.The data was collected in first quarter of 2016 and shows that 28% of all mobile applications written in English by U.S. developers are int...
User Acquisition: The Hidden Driver Behind the Unbundling Trend
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 by Adam Foroughi
There’s no doubt that unbundling or launching specialized apps has been a sound strategic move for incumbent apps (think Twitter’s Vine and Periscope and Instagram’s Hyperlapse and Layout, not to mention Facebook’s Messenger), as has specializing from the get-go - the extreme examples being Yo, or IFTTT’s Do. This is for good reason. Streamlined, single-function ap...
Box Releases Box Developer Edition
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Box has released closed beta of Box Developer Edition, a new way to build on the Box platform.The Box Developer Edition offers a new functionality where app users will no longer have to create their own Box accounts to use an application. App Auth uses the JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication architecture to establish a trusted connection with Box, allowing an applicatio...
Game Developers Conference Wrap up: Five Things We Learned
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
As the Game Developers Conference (GDC) comes to a close, what are the big picture thoughts we can take away?1) Console gaming still has legs – A number of new titles from game publishing titans in the industry were rolled out. Sony announced its new Project Morpheus virtual reality (VR) system for the PlayStation4, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 and...
OpenFL Technologies and Sungame Corporation Announce Support for Glasses Free 3D
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Sungame is working with OpenFL Technologies to provide Stereoscopic 3D (S3D) support for the free OpenFL development platform. This enables OpenFL developers, in addition to developers familiar with Flash, to quickly support glasses-free 3D devices.OpenFL developers can leverage S3D where supported, while remaining compatible with 2D screens. Games and ap...
Earn $100 an app for publishing them into the Windows Phone Market
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 by Richard Harris
Microsoft announced a new promotion to try and get more app inventory into their market. They will pay U.S. developers $100 per app published in the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store, with a limit of 10 published apps per store. The promotion runs through June 30, or for the first 10,000 published apps, whichever comes first.
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App developers I told you so to Apple about maps
Thursday, October 11, 2012 by Richard Harris
App developers raised concerns about the poor quality of Apple's Maps back as far back as June, it has been revealed.
Several anonymous developers revealed to CNET that it was obvious early on that the Google Maps replacement was not up to scratch and weren't shy about informing Apple through several official channels.
These developers,...
