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Ten Development Environments That Won’t Go Away

Original post by DON WILLMOTT via DICE If you code for a living, you know the world’s become very much about adapting or dying. But: The truth is that some development technologies just don’t die. In fact, TechRepublic’s Justin James has come up with a list of ten, along with his interesting commentary. COBOL: “There are millions […]

Adfonic Sponsors TechMeetups Apps Hackathon:HTML5 & Cloud, London 20-22 Jul.

How can I best monetise the apps I build?  That’s the question every mobile app developer asks themselves whether thinking about their next project or reviewing the success of what they’ve already got out in the market. To help answer that question Adfonic, the global mobile advertising marketplace, will be supporting the TechMeetups Apps Hackathon […]

Yammer presenting at July TechMeetups

@Microsoft new acquisition @Yammer supports #SiliconRoundabout #TechCity at London’s July #TechMeetups To keep up with the latest trends in Social Networking and the benefits it can bring to organisations, Microsoft acquired early stage (4 years old) company Yammer for $1.2billion last week. Microsoft would integrate Yammer with Sharepoint, its Enterprise collaboration platform already being used […]

MasterCard and Deutsche Telekom to Cooperate on Mobile Payments

Original post by Mobile Tech News Berlin — MasterCard (MA) and Deutsche Telekom today announced a European partnership to enable consumers to use their mobile phones as a convenient and secure way to pay. At a press conference in Berlin today, Deutsche Telekom and MasterCard highlighted the importance of their partnership and the introduction of mobile […]

Indian IT to benefit from Barack Obama’s healthcare victory

Original post by Harsimran Julka via EconomicTimes BANGALORE: Indian information technology and back-office companies can look forward to deals worth up to $22 billion (Rs 1.2 lakhcrore) after the US Supreme Court upheld a law designed to bring about far-reaching reforms in the American healthcare sector. Some 30 million uninsured Americans are expected to buy healthcare insurance because of the reform, and […]

Google I/O Highlights That’ll Set You Straight

Original post by MICHELLE GREENLEE via Dice Last week’s Google I/O 2012 offered entertainment and technology in a big way — even beyond the live skydive broadcast over Google Hangouts On Air and the preview version of Android 4.1, which packs powerful API level functions and other features. Here’s a comprehensive recap of the event: Android 4.1 Jelly […]

Tech city in east London ‘bigger than thought’

Original post by BBC Tech city, an area around Old Street in east London which is home to number of technology firms, has more businesses and employs more people than previously thought. Previously Chancellor George Osborne, the boss of Google and others had thought the number of IT firms based in the area, also known […]

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley

Original post by Daniel Brunt via Yammer Following a customer meeting in New York City on December 7th, 2011, I learned that Yammer was going to establish a New York office. In Yammer years, that was an eon or two ago. At that time, I was based at headquarters in San Francisco and worked primarily with Northeast […]

Apprentice loser Nick Holzherr gets funding for food site

Original post by BBC A runner up in television series The Apprentice has secured funding for his food website after being turned down by Lord Sugar. Nick Holzherr has secured £170,000 to launchWhisk, a service that creates online shopping lists based on recipes. In the TV series, Lord Sugar told the entrepreneur that he was […]

Five key points from the Silicon Prairie Stories panel at TechWeek

Original post by JEFF SLOBOTSKI via Silicon Prairienews I participated Monday in a Chicago TechWeek panel titled “Stories from the Silicon Prairie: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Outside of the Valley.” I was joined by Naithan Jones of AgLocal, Thad Langford of Open Air Equity Partners, Ben Milne of Dwolla and Greg Kratofil of Polsinelli Shughart, who served as our panel’s moderator. This was the first time that most of us had presented on the same […]