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Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Haven OnDemand machine learning-centric developer platform has been around since late 2014, but it’s only coming out of beta and becoming commercially available today. Haven OnDemand, which is hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, provides developers with APIs and services for building data-rich applications. The roughly 60 APIs currently included… Read More... →

Product management tool Propel announced today that it closed a $4.2 million series A investment led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. Propel’s product, built on Salesforce, promises a service that “helps everyone involved in launching new products coordinate all the product, customer and service information needed for a product to be successful.” The funds of the round, […]... →

Have you ever been riding in an Uber and become suddenly overtaken by the immediate need for a new Android tablet or a Dell Latitude E6420? Yeah, me neither. Read More... →

GUEST: Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft’s new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open consumer PC ecosystem. Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox at Microsoft, responding on Twitter, said, “UWP is a fully open ecosystem, available to every developer, […]... →

GUEST: Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft and the current owner of the L.A. Clippers, has a lot to say about Microsoft — especially about the Microsoft Azure cloud business. In an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that since the company was betting big on the cloud, it should report revenues and profits […]... →

Amazon.com is having a little trouble loading today. The company’s other websites, including regional ones like Amazon.ca, appear to be working just fine. We first spotted the outage at 11:20 a.m. Pacific. The site is displaying a generic apologetic message: “We’re sorry! An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we’re […]... →

SPLT is bringing ridesharing to the corporate world. Instead of pairing you up with strangers who happen to be heading the same way, SPLT is targeted at large organizations to help ease the logistical and environmental impact of ping-ponging back and forth between the home and the workplace. The company also aims to maximize the side-effects of its service, such as encouraging mentor sessions. Read More... →

Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today, although the company still isn’t ready to share when the operating system will be available for older devices. The latest build includes improvements to the Phone app, Outlook, and Calendar. Like the last mobile build, this one is only available for devices that shipped with Windows […]... →

Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. For instance, the company has many researchers working on artificial intelligence, which powers real-time speech translation with Skype Translator. But one area stands out for Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft […]... →

We’re busy getting ready for a full week of coverage of the Game Developers Conference. Our team includes GamesBeat news writer Jeff Grubb, GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti, and GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson. We’ll be covering everything from Monday through Friday, with a combination of embargoed news, press conferences (including AMD, Unity, Epic Games, […]... →

Developers love using GitHub, and when it comes to managing projects, they’re likely to go through the platform’s task management offering — GitHub Issues. While it works well for developers, it can be a bit complex for less technically inclined members of the team, resulting in communication problems. Zube has introduced a solution with a project management […]... →

Wikipedia today launched an upgraded version of its iOS application aimed at helping users better discover content matching their own interests, including both articles and images. In addition, the app has been optimized for Apple’s newer OS and latest iPhones (6s and 6s Plus) with support for 3D Touch and Spotlight Search integrations. This is the latest in a series of efforts from… Read More... →

Fred Wilson is a name that needs no introduction, but we’re going to do it anyway. TechCrunch is excited to announce that Fred Wilson will be speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, which goes down May 9 through May 11, in a fireside chat. Fred is a veteran at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, which makes sense given his contribution to the growth of the New York tech scene over the past… Read More... →

В конце февраля в App Store появилось приложение для просмотра чужих новостных лент в Instagram — Being. На него обратило внимание множество западных технологических СМИ. Спустя неделю после запуска, Instagram закрыла приложению доступ к API соцсети. В своём блоге создатель проекта Адам Машаал рассказал, как приложение для просмотра чужих новостей стало самой успешной разработкой за всю его 10-летнюю карьеру.... →

Yahoo today announced an update that will allow people to sign up to use its services and make new Yahoo accounts — but with any email address. No longer will you need to create a Yahoo email address if you want to use, say, Yahoo Fantasy Sports. Yahoo senior product manager Assaf Kremer makes a […]... →

Для студентов предусмотрена возможность получения стипендии, которая позволит пройти обучение бесплатно... →

Команда Yesgraph — инструмента для рассылки мобильных приглашений пользователям — изучила интерфейс iOS-приложения Telegram с точки зрения роста и сформулировала рекомендации: как можно улучшить пользовательский опыт и процесс знакомства с сервисом. В рубрике Growth Hacks — выдержка наиболее интересных рекомендаций.... →

Выручка стартапа «Партия еды» за 2015 год составила 51 099 384 рублей, что на 300% больше, по сравнению с 2014 годом. Об этом в своем блоге сообщил основатель сервиса Михаил Перегудов.  По его словам, компания выполнила план на 93% в 2015 году, изначально рассчитывая выйти на 400% роста. С марта 2015 года компания не привлекала инвестиции, не использовала кредиты и другие внешние средства. В блоге также утверждается, что в течение года компания выпустила новые продукты, снизила стоимость продукции на 10%, п... →

Today Apple invited the press to attend a March 21 event at the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters. Apple has yet to share its plans for the event — it only offered this vague tagline: “Let us loop you in” — but the company is rumored to unveil a 4-inch iPhone 5se (a spiritual successor to the iPhone 5c) as well as […]... →

New York-based Yext, which helps businesses manage their listings for store locations, is announcing $88.8 million in revenue for its fiscal 2016 year. The company says this is a 48% increase from last year and that their workforce also grew by 38% to 455 employees. Yext recently added Google to its PowerListings network, which means that clients can update their Google Search and Maps… Read More... →