How Apple, Google, and Microsoft used each others’ app stores in 2016

Emil Protalinski December 30, 2016 9:05 AM

Y Combinator-backed Omniref is shutting down on January 31, 2017

Jordan Novet December 29, 2016 4:37 PM

Facebook open-sources Atom in Orbit, a web-based IDE

Jordan Novet December 29, 2016 8:00 AM

AWS’ WorkMail service now supports Apple Mail, Outlook 2016 for Mac, Thunderbird

Jordan Novet December 28, 2016 5:36 PM

Flurry: 44% of devices activated during Christmas week were from Apple, 21% from Samsung, and 3% from Huawei

Emil Protalinski December 27, 2016 11:20 AM

24 acquisitions in 2016 that reveal Europe and Israel as hotbeds of innovation

Paul Sawers December 24, 2016 1:15 PM

Mozilla will support Firefox for Windows XP and Vista until at least September 2017

Emil Protalinski December 23, 2016 10:35 AM

How GPS data derived from e-taxi platforms could improve road conditions in developing countries

Paul Sawers December 21, 2016 4:42 AM

Microsoft starts using Brotli compression algorithm in Edge

Jordan Novet December 20, 2016 10:40 AM

Facebook now lets people sign into Android apps instantly with just their phone number

Jordan Novet December 20, 2016 10:02 AM

Mac Pro is ‘very likely dead’, developer Marco Arment says

Jordan Novet December 19, 2016 9:26 PM

VSCO for iOS now lets you shoot and edit photos in RAW

Jordan Novet December 19, 2016 12:44 PM

How Google and Improbable help developers make massive online games for cheap

Dean Takahashi December 19, 2016 12:00 PM

Google releases Project Wycheproof: Security tests to check cryptographic libraries for known attacks

Emil Protalinski December 19, 2016 9:52 AM

OneWeb raises $1.2 billion to launch a ‘constellation’ of satellites for high-speed internet access

Paul Sawers December 19, 2016 7:12 AM

Play Pong on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar with this app

Jordan Novet December 18, 2016 2:01 AM

AWS launches enterprise tier of its QuickSight business intelligence tool

Jordan Novet December 16, 2016 2:47 PM

Google, Adobe, and Twitter’s Crashlytics rank among the most popular mobile SDKs in 2016

Ken Yeung December 16, 2016 10:57 AM

4 takeaways from Oracle’s earnings call

Barb Darrow, Fortune December 16, 2016 8:45 AM

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Blaise Zerega December 15, 2016 6:12 PM

The Internet Archive aims to preserve 100 terabytes of government website data… just in case

Paul Sawers December 15, 2016 8:16 AM

Big data software company Databricks raises $60 million

Jordan Novet December 15, 2016 6:00 AM

Nokia acquires network performance management company Deepfield

Paul Sawers December 15, 2016 3:15 AM

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.8 with Hot Exit, Zen Mode, View Picker

Jordan Novet December 14, 2016 3:46 PM

Samsung’s Harman Kardon will release an Alexa competitor with Cortana in 2017

Jordan Novet December 13, 2016 3:37 PM

Google releases Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview 4 with OAuth API, in-app billing, and cross-device promotion

Emil Protalinski December 13, 2016 10:01 AM

Google launches developer preview of Android Things OS for IoT, a rebranding of Brillo

Jordan Novet December 13, 2016 9:00 AM

Cloudflare acquires app platform Eager, will sunset service in Q1 2017

Ken Yeung December 13, 2016 6:00 AM

Intuit opens up TurboTax service to developers, starting with online lender Earnest

Ken Yeung December 13, 2016 5:00 AM

5 bots to try this week: SkillFlow, Talkbot, Obie, Quizdom, and Chat with Alice

VB Staff December 12, 2016 7:12 PM

Amazon launches AWS Managed Services to help more big companies adopt cloud

Jordan Novet December 12, 2016 1:54 PM

Apple’s TV app is now available for everyone in the U.S.

Jordan Novet December 12, 2016 10:18 AM

Twilio’s SantaPhone hack lets kids say what they want for Christmas

Ken Yeung December 12, 2016 6:00 AM

Play Pac-Man on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar with this app

Jordan Novet December 12, 2016 2:01 AM

How Amazon Lightsail makes AWS more accessible

Jordan Novet December 11, 2016 9:01 PM

Google starts using HTML5 by default instead of Flash for some Chrome users

Jordan Novet December 9, 2016 12:52 PM

Sixa raises $3.5 million and launches personal cloud computing platform

Ken Yeung December 9, 2016 10:41 AM

How Capcom juggles global game development with third-party studios

Dean Takahashi December 9, 2016 10:00 AM

White House raises concerns about China’s new cyber security law

Reuters December 8, 2016 9:51 PM

Google rebrands Android for Work as just Android

Jordan Novet December 8, 2016 4:56 PM