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Gowalla Acquired By Facebook
By Jeremy Muncy · December 2, 2011 · 1

Facebook has acquired location-based provider Gowalla, according to a report. Citing “a source close to Gowalla”, CNN Money says Facebook has purchased the company for an undislosed amount. The Gowalla team, including founder Josh Williams, will move from their Austin, …

Angry Birds Developer Calls For Death Of Console Gaming
By John Vinson · March 15, 2011 · 3

The television was supposed to kill radio. The internet is supposed to stab television in the back. Email is supposedly going to be dead in a few years due to social media. I wonder if Twitter will commit harikari in …

Important Bing Developer Leaves For eBay
By Andy Beal · June 29, 2009

It seems that Microsoft’s taking three steps forward and one step back, with its hiring of other companies’ employees. It just lost Hugh Williams to eBay.

AOL speaks up with Open Voices API
By WebProNews Staff · April 29, 2008

Developers will be able to build applications to integrate AIM Call Out into devices with wi-fi connections as well as SIP-enabled devices, and softphones.

Yahoo Resets Mobile Platform At CES
By WebProNews Staff · January 7, 2008

Several changes to Yahoo’s mobile strategy will start with an open developer platform and updated offerings to those who access Yahoo from a wireless phone.

Googlers Develop Developer Event Calendar
By WebProNews Staff · December 17, 2007

Pamela Fox, of Google Developer Programs, and colleague Austin Chau "hacked up" a new calendar for the developer community at large. Developers will be able to list their upcoming events and parties.

Facebook Opens Developer Platform
By Darren Straight · December 14, 2007

Online social network site Facebook has now opened up its developer platform to other social networking sites.

Googler Moves On To Meetup
By Doug Caverly · November 27, 2007

Google’s doing amazingly well, so any sort of “abandoning a burning ship” metaphor is way off base. Still, a lot of employees are leaving the search giant, and the latest to do so is a man named Dominic Preuss.

Yahoo Adds New Blog To Developer Network
By Mike Sachoff · November 14, 2007

Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo announced today that Yahoo will feature a blog on the Yahoo Developer Network focused on Hadoop.

Google Flashes $10M At Android Developers
By WebProNews Staff · November 12, 2007

Google isn’t looking for the next Commander Data, but mobile applications for the free, open platform they recently announced.

Looking at Google Android, Developer Kit & Competition
By Philipp Lenssen · November 12, 2007 · 2

Google created a video showcasing Android, the Google-initiated, Linux-based open source mobile operating system being backed by the recently announced – and again Google-initiated – Open Handset Alliance.

Platform Possibilities: Bebo, Not MySpace
By Jordan McCollum · October 12, 2007

More platform rumors are flying this week. After the success of Facebook’s platform, it seems like everyone and their social network is scrambling to get their own version out. We’ve already seen rumors about Google’s and MySpace’s intentions. Today, the MySpace rumors are called into question and Bebo rumors start.

What’s it Mean When A Facebook App is Sold?
By Kimberly Krause Berg · September 20, 2007

I should begin by clearly stating I’m no legal expert, application developer or feeling overly paranoid (oh shut up!). However, my travels today led me to discover something I wasn’t aware of before.

Facebook applications can be sold by their creators.

Google AJAX Search API Including Image Results
By Navneet Kaushal · July 24, 2007

Google AJAX Search API now has image search results reports the Goog

AOL Massages Video Portal
By WebProNews Staff · July 2, 2007

The redesign to AOL Video integrated its Truveo video search technology with the updates delivered by the website.

EBay Sellers Get Some Help, Online and Off
By WebProNews Staff · June 14, 2007 · 5

The eBay Developers Conference in Boston offers up some juicy tidbits for online retailers, from forthcoming third-party applications and research tools to ways to hire certified developers to create widgets for your website.

eBay Adds Host Of New Services
By Mike Sachoff · June 11, 2007

eBay has announced a number of new services and platform enhancements to help developers extend eBay content. The announcement was made at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston today.

eBay Named Best Web 2.0 Developer
By Mike Sachoff · June 7, 2007

eBay has been named the best overall Web 2.0 developer program, beating out Amazon, Google, MSN, PayPal and Yahoo, according to Evans Data’s Developer’s Choice: Web 2.0 Developer Programs survey.

Speedgeeking Spins Off Google Maps Mashups
By Doug Caverly · June 1, 2007

“Speedgeeking” is an odd term – it apparently relates to speed dating – and yet, when a bunch of Googlers engaged in this activity, the end result was a number of interesting Google Maps mashups.

AdCenter Needs More Blogging
By WebProNews Staff · June 1, 2007

The user interface and reporting features have been updated on adCenter, but communicating these updates doesn’t seem to be a priority.

Webcasts from Google Developer Day
By Philipp Lenssen · May 30, 2007

As you may know, tomorrow (May 31st 2007) Google will hold a developer day in different locations around the world. If you can’t make it, you can watch the developer day webcasts for Mountain View and London – and if you do make it, please add your photos and other impressions in the forum thread.

According to a Google press release, the webcasts will include:

Facebook f8? Read The Fine Print
By WebProNews Staff · May 30, 2007 · 2

The terms and conditions of Facebook’s new f8 development platform may give its targeted developer audience pause before firing up the IDE and getting to work.

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