development 
127 posts and columns on development
Forget Trendy Coffee Beans — Now Seaweed Innovation Gets Techie Money
As they say in Silicon Valley: Move fast and break things — though, in this case, not the chips.
AOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot
Press one for a much-needed overhaul of the service that still lives in 1999.
In a Big Mobile Move, Pivotal Buys Xtreme Labs for $65 Million in Cash
You need to be mobile in the enterprise, says the cloud-based joint venture of EMC and VMware.
AOL’s Sullivan to Take Over Its Homepage Business
More management changes at the New York Internet giant.
Exclusive: Microsoft’s Xbox Head Don Mattrick Leaving to Take Top Role — Possibly CEO — At Zynga
A very big hire for the troubled online gaming giant.
Zynga to Lay Off 520 Employees — 18 Percent of Staff — and Shutter New York and LA Offices in Refocus on Mobile
Right-sizing the gaming giant for the mobile market.
Movile’s Bloisi Says Wi-Fi and Cheaper Prices Are Key for Smartphone Penetration in Latin America
The founder and CEO of Brazil’s largest mobile services company thinks the next four years will see a boom in the important region.
Facebook Photo Phenom Instagram Gets a Business Lead to Scale Its Operations (and Presumably Revenue)
Is it time to make some dough from the billion-dollar deal?
Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Departs to Join Nirvanix as CEO
She has been replaced at the gaming company by Dorion Carroll.
Global Platform Head Carroll Departs Yahoo for Go Daddy, While Yahoo News Head Leaves for NBC
An internationalization exec and key news exec take their skills elsewhere.