Frederic Lardinois

Google’s YouTube app for Android now supports virtual reality (VR) video in combination with its Cardboard VR viewer. VR video takes the 360-degree videos you may already be familiar with…

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Mobile Data Labs. While that name probably doesn’t ring a bell, the company’s MileIQ app is one of the most popular Android and…

Expedia Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire the publicly traded vacation rental service HomeAway and its brands (including VRBO.com) for $3.9 billion in cash and common sto

Google today announced that over 19,000 organizations are now either testing, deploying or using its Android for Work service. Android for Work makes it easier and safer for businesses to…

Google Calendar is having issues this morning, so if you don’t know what meetings you have and where you are supposed to be, you’re not alone. As far as we…

HipChat, the team chat platform Atlassian acquired in 2012, now allows developers to build apps that run directly inside its user interface. Until now, developers were only able to push…

After a short beta period, Mozilla today graduated its new Tracking Protection feature for Firefox’s Private Browsing mode into its release channel with the launch of Firefox 42.

A few months ago, CoreOS launched the preview of Tectonic, a container platform based on the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management and orchestration tool. Starting today, CoreOS considers Tectonic to be…

Earlier this year, Opera’s former CEO Jon von Tetzchner launched Vivaldi, a new desktop browser for power users (and those who were unhappy with Opera’s direction after that company’s switch…

EBay today finalized the sale of its previously announced eBay Enterprise business. As part of this deal, Zeta Interactive, the big data-driven marketing firm co-founded by David Steinberg and former…

By now you have probably seen the WSJ report that says Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system into Android and phase it (and the “Chromebook” name) out over…

Drone manufacturer DJI and Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Manifold, a small embedded computer that’s optimized for building applications for drones.

The Seattle-based online home services platform Porch.com today announced that it has acquired Fountain, a service that connects Internet users with doctors, lawyers, mechanics, tech support and other experts through video…

It’s no secret that HP is about to sunset its public cloud business and that it has conceded that side of its business to the likes of AWS, Microsoft and Google.…

Rackspace is getting deeper into the container game. The company today announced the beta launch of its Carina container service. Carina gives developers access to a fully managed container environment…

The OpenStack Foundation, the nonprofit behind the increasingly popular open-source cloud computing project, today announced the launch of a certification program for OpenStack cloud admins during its bi-annual developer conference.

Deploying an OpenStack cloud is still anything but easy. Solinea helps enterprises design and deploy their private clouds, both as a consulting firm and as a technology provider. The company today announced that it has…

It’s only been two weeks since Google first launched some of its core Cloud Platform services in its South Carolina data center (the ‘us-east1 region’ if you want to be…

Project management service Trello today launched a new feature that brings shipping and tracking data from UPS, USPS, FedEx, OnTrac and LaserShip right into Trello cards. That’s a nifty little feature for…

Back in 2013, YouSendIt changed its name to Hightail because it had evolved beyond its original file-sharing roots. Today, the core of the service is still about sharing files, but with…

It’s not easy being a solo entrepreneur. And if you’re a wedding photographer, wedding planner, interior designer, artisan pickle-maker, freelance web designer or developer, chances are you spend a significant amount of…

Google first announced Universal App Campaigns, a product that allows developers to easily advertise their apps, at its I/O Developer Conference in May. Now, almost half a year later, this…

Google is making a change to how Chrome pushes notifications to users. Google’s Chrome browser started supporting push notifications from web apps to the desktop five years ago and a…

For a while now, Google has offered a single-sign-on service based on the SAML standard. Today, the company is adding SAML 2.0 support for 17 additional enterprise SaaS apps like…

Google today launched Cloud Datalab, a new interactive developer tool for exploring, analyzing and visualizing data with just a few clicks. As Google tells us, the service is meant to help developers “get…

Apigee, a service that specializes in managing APIs for developers and enterprises, launched a new security product today that aims to protect APIs from malicious bots. The new Apigee Sense…

Compared to its Creative and Marketing Cloud solutions, Adobe’s recently launched Document Cloud and eSign services (formerly known as EchoSign) don’t quite get the same amount of attention yet, but…

Mozilla’s leadership team has seen its fair share of changes recently and today the organization named Katharina Borchert as its new Chief Innovation Officer (a role once held by Mozilla’s…

Amazon today announced the launch of its AWS Mobile Hub based on AWS Lambda at its re:Invent developer conference, a new tool that makes it easier for mobile developer to…

Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what…