Dries Buytaert is programming wunderkind. He learned to program when he was six years old — even before he could read. Today he is internationally famous as the creator of Drupal, one of the world’s most successful open source projects. And it all happened by accident. Drupal is a free, open source content management system … read more here
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Dries Buytaert’s Software Powers A Million Important Websites — And He Built It From His Couch
March 24, 2012 by
Why “Want” & “Own” might be the most important Actions coming to Facebook
January 18, 2012 by
Facebook is bringing a boatload of apps and actions onto the social network. Now, instead of just “Liking” something, you can say you read it, listened to it, or watched it, all through your favorite web and mobile apps. While a huge number of these semantically linked verbs, called Actions, are going to be appearing … read more here
Good Technology Earns Defense Department Approval for Secure Android Platform
January 5, 2012 by
Excerpt: Good Technology, a provider of secure mobility solutions, said on Wednesday that its government-based subsidiary (Good for Government) has been approved by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide mobile device management and DLP technologies for devices used on the DoD’s Global Information Grid. The announcement comes just after it was announced that the Pentagon … read more here
DISA OKs secure Android mobile system for DOD
January 5, 2012 by
The Defense Information Systems Agency has certified a secure Android-based mobile system for use by Defense Department agencies. The system allows DOD personnel to sign, encrypt and decrypt e-mail, and securely access data from a smart phone or tablet computer. Developed by Good Technology for use on DOD-approved Dell Streak 5 smart phones, the capability … read more here
Armed With New Fund, Index Ventures Hunts For The Next Billion-Dollar Tech Firm
November 9, 2011 by
Bubble? What bubble? One of Europe’s leading venture capital funds is so confident about the opportunities in Europe’s technology firms that it’s just armed itself with a new growth fund worth 500 million euros ($700 million). London-based Index Ventures has already backed regional tech heroes like Skype (recently purchased by Microsoft), Playfish and London’s Mind Candy, … read more here
Index Ventures Raises New Growth Fund
November 8, 2011 by
Venture-capital firm Index Ventures, which is based in Europe with its main offices in London and Geneva, is expanding. The firm recently opened a new office in San Francisco, where two of its partners have relocated. And on Tuesday, Index said it raised a new $700 million growth fund to invest in fast-growing companies. Index … read more here
