Category: Technology

By Natasha Lomas It’s only a few weeks since Google Ventures announced it’s setting up shop in London, as a hub for investing $100 million all over Europe. Now another big fund has been unboxed by local German media firm, Bauer Media. Read More Source: Technology     

By Frederic Lardinois There used to be a time when Microsoft would release new versions of its Visual Studio development environment every two years or so, with maybe a service pack in the middle. Since the release of Visual Studio 2013, however, the company has switched to a much faster update cadence and today, it…

By Ron Miller Docker, Inc., the commercial company behind the open source Docker project, announced today it had sold its dotCloud Platform as a Service business to Berlin-based cloudControl. The deal presumably will allow Docker to focus on its core software containerization business. In a blog post on the dotCloud website, Developer Support Manager Andrew…

By Alex Wilhelm As promised, Microsoft has released Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 to developers. If you are part of the company’s Windows Phone Developer Preview program, you can snag the update now. If you have troubles finding the new code, Paul Thurrott has an exhaustive look into the process of securing the update. The…

By Steve Gillmor The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — talk Slack, Nuzzel, micro-audiences, notification strategy, Microsoft futures, Office on the iPad, and a Sunday brunch of tech nuggets. Not discussed but no less relevant, IFTT, Instapaper, Digg Deeper, MediaREDEF, voice roaming, and the amazing set…