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Mailbox Takes Its Email App To iPad, With Android Waiting In The Wings

What has Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood and his team been up to since selling the email-app maker to Dropbox for a reported $100 million in March?


Mostly working on new versions of the product - like an iPad version of the app, which is coming out Thursday morning on Apple's App Stor

Making Android Pay For Developers: Checking Out The New Tools In Google Play

This post is the second in the ReadWrite series Making Android Pay, in which we explore the opportunities and challenges mobile developers face trying to make money from Android apps.

Android Dramatically Extends Lead With Open Source Developers

Despite Google Android's long market-share rise against Apple iOS, developers continued to stick with iOS as their first deployment target. While Android offered superior volume, that volume was fragmented between different versions of the OS and disparate hardware.

Square Storms Japan

Square, the mobile payment service that has been making strong inroads within the North American retail sector, has announced the availability of its service in Japan.

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without running into the elephant in the room: Hadoop. This open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation has proven to be very helpful in storing and managing vast amounts of data cheaply and efficiently.

Twitter Finally Gets Two-Factor Authentication

In a pure case of closing the barn doors after the horses have come home (and so many corporate Twitter accounts have been hacked), Twitter has announced today the option to implement two-factor authentication.

Don't Look Now, But We Might Be In A Developer Drought

HubSpot, a Cambridge-based marketing software-as-a-service venture, has started a new initiative to handsomely compensate anyone who can refer a developer friend.

LinkedIn's Facelift Continues With New Navigation Bar

Aligning itself aesthetically more along the lines of social networks like Facebook and Google+, LinkedIn has introduced a new navigation bar to its website.

If Google+ Is Good, Why Does Google Force It On Us?

Google really, really wants us to like Google+. Google is embedding Google+ into each of its products, making it increasingly difficult to use its services without embracing the Google+ borg, whether you want to or not.

Xbox One: The Most Restrictive Game Console Ever Made

In an event Tuesday morning that felt like a casual bar conversation compared to Sony's brain-exploding extravaganza back in February, Microsoft unveiled the next-gen Xbox not in a giant conference center, but in a tent set up on a soccer field at its Redmond campus.