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Interview: Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza goes from outcast to insider at Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO — There was a time when Miguel de Icaza couldn’t get Microsoft to give him the time of… Read More

Windows 95 architect launches open-source, media-rich document creation platform for mobile devices

PowerPoint is fine for your business presentation, but getting your message across with a few pictures and text alone may… Read More

Google engineers praise Microsoft open-source collaboration: ‘We share the same soul’

“It really became apparent that we share the same soul, and we’ve been able to work really well together because… Read More

Google open-sources ‘TensorFlow’ machine learning system, offering its neural network to outside developers

You’ve likely used products shaped by Google’s machine learning system. The neural network has helped Google understand the subject in each Google… Read More

Walmart plans to release OneOps cloud technology as open source, targeting AWS and Azure

Walmart announced this week that it’s open-sourcing its cloud platform, called OneOps, to let developers build in the cloud without being locked… Read More

Software Engineering Daily: How Facebook’s React project is reshaping app development

Facebook engineering has recently produced a powerful suite of loosely coupled tools for software development: React, GraphQL, Relay, React Native, and… Read More

LinuxCon: Zipcar’s Robin Chase believes open-source collaboration can solve the world’s biggest problems

Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase is worried about climate change. If countries don’t strictly follow climate-friendly initiatives, we could see the… Read More

Microsoft to buy Revolution Analytics, pushing further into big data

Microsoft this morning announced a deal to buy Revolution Analytics, the top commercial provider of software and services for the… Read More

With .NET turnaround, Microsoft wants to create ‘one big family’ with open-source community

Back in 2005, Miguel de Icaza was lucky not to get kicked out of Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los… Read More

Chef pledges to better police open source community after engineer resigns following death threats

An engineer at Seattle-based Chef has resigned following hateful speech directed at him related to his work on the open… Read More

Know your Linux! New Linux Foundation certification aims to boost Linux job market

Linux has been expanding its reach — powering Google, Facebook and other major platforms — and hiring managers say they’re in need… Read More

Microsoft open-sources ‘Roslyn’ .NET compiler platform

SAN FRANCISCO – Open source fans, rejoice: Microsoft has released its new “Roslyn” .NET compiler platform preview as an open… Read More

Four tech terms to forget in ’14

It’s 2014, and time to ring in the new and throw out the old. Old tech terms, that is: those… Read More

Here’s why Mozilla picked Portland to open its first offices outside Silicon Valley

Mozilla, makers of the popular Firefox browser, announced last week that it was expanding its cohort in Portland and moving employees… Read More

A crowd-funded car: Wikispeed raising funds for 100 MPG open-source vehicle

We’ve been tracking lots of creative projects using crowdsourced funding models, but this one puts a new spin on things.… Read More

After Kickstarter success game studios turn to Zipline for help

Kickstarter is revolutionizing the way that game companies raise cash as evidenced by the recent success of Harebrained Schemes (Shadowrun… Read More

Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever

Has Microsoft figured out a cure for cancer? The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to that disease,… Read More

Ignition Partners leads $40 million round for Cloudera

Ignition Partners, Greylock, Accel, In-Q-Tel, Meritech Capital Partners and others are pumping $40 million into Cloudera, a Palo Alto, California-based maker… Read More

Open source developer objects to news hackathon’s 11-page contract

Seattle developer Jeff Reifman was looking forward to participating in this weekend’s Hacking Seattle News contest, a three-day hackathon sponsored… Read More

Microsoft extends SUSE deal, agrees to buy another $100M in Linux support

Linux vendor Novell Inc. is no longer a standalone company, but Microsoft today announced an agreement with its successor, Attachmate’s… Read More

Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software

Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise… Read More

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