Darryl K. Taft

Madrona Venture Group, an early-stage venture capital firm, announced today that S. “Soma” Somasegar, formerly corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, is joining the firm as a venture partner. Soma joins Madrona after nearly 27 years at Microsoft. Under Soma’s leadership, the Microsoft Developer Division, which supports more than 6 million .NET developers worldwide, […]

NEW YORK—Microsoft made a host of developer-related announcements, delivering new and updated tools to reinforce its commitment to become all things to all developers. At the company’s annual Connect(); developer event here today Microsoft introduced several new and updated developer tools and programs from Visual Studio, Azure, Office and Windows, including many new free offers. […]

Xamarin, a provider of enterprise mobility tools for cross-platform mobile app developers, has announced the availability of Xamarin 4, an update of its integrated end-to-end solution to build, test and monitor mobile apps at scale through the Xamarin Platform, Xamarin Test Cloud and Xamarin Insights. Nat Friedman, CEO and cofounder of Xamarin, said that as […]

IBM announced that five new cloud partners have joined its growing ecosystem serving the U.S. federal government. In addition, IBM is working with developers to create new cloud apps for first responders. Together with IBM, these resellers and distributors will focus on delivering new hybrid cloud solutions across federal agencies. Arrow, Avnet Government Solutions, Ingram […]

Sencha, a provider of a unified platform for building cross-platform web apps, announced it is now a Premier Level Partner of the Microsoft Visual Studio Partner Program. Moreover, in support of the new partnership with Microsoft, Sencha launched early access to its Visual Studio Plug-in, which enables enterprise developers to use the Sencha web application […]

Windows 10 adoption is on the rise and not only among consumers and not only is Microsoft saying so. According to Evans Data, developers are adopting Windows 10 at a rapid pace. The Evans Data study indicates that the number of developers using Windows 10 has increased more than 645 percent in the last six […]

Microsoft, Mojang AB and Code.org today announced that a “Minecraft” coding tutorial for students and educators has been created for the third-annual Hour of Code, a campaign to broaden global participation in computer science, to be held during Computer Science Education Week, Dec. 7–13. The new tutorial, now available here, introduces players to basic coding […]

IBM today announced it is using Nvidia Tesla K80 graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the retrieve and rank API capabilities of its Watson cognitive computing system. The announcement comes amid news that IBM and several fellow OpenPower Foundation members today introduced new technologies, collaborations and developer resources to enable organizations to analyze data more […]

IBM has launched developerWorks Premium, a subscription model of its developerWorks community, to provide developers with exclusive, member-only tools and resources for IBM Cloud. With the new developerWorks Premium offering, developers gain an all-access pass to cloud-based IBM offerings and services that will help them rapidly prototype, develop and deploy cloud projects. According to a […]

7 Companies Streaming Real-Time Data to Drive Innovation We look at how seven companies are taking new approaches to streaming real-time data to break new ground with the newest-generation technology. Uber Uber connects riders with drive partners for an average one million trips a day, providing safe, reliable, convenient transportation at a variety of price […]