Cloud Trailblazers: 10 for 2013
The story of the cloud is often told via hardware and code, but behind the shift in IT are people. We found 10 of them who are rethinking infrastructure. Meet our Cloud Trailblazers. Read more »
Ireland should finally get 4G in 2013, after spectrum auction shatters expectations
You know what’s cool? $1.1bn. Especially when, like the Irish government, you were only expecting a fifth of that. And, with carriers finally free to roll out 4G, that won’t be the only boost to the Irish economy. Read more »
Meteor rakes in $11.2M to fuel enterprise app development push
Meteor Development, the hot startup that aims to remake enterprise software development, picked up some pretty impressive coin in a $11.2 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with contributions from Matrix Partners. Rod Johnson will join Meteor’s board. Read more »
Scoop: Meteor gets $9M in funding
Meteor, the startup behind a hot new real-time JavaScript framework, has scored $9 million in initial funding from Andreessen Horowitz, sources said. Developers like being able to use the same APIs on both client and server devices and without having to touch servers. Read more »
Meteor relents, changes licensing on popular JavaScript framework
The folks at Meteor apparently listened to developer hue-and-cry and put the promising real-time JavaScript framework under a more open MIT license. That means it will be easier to build commercial software with Meteor than it would have been under the GPL license. Read more »
Web developers: Watch out for Meteor!
Meteor, a new real-time JavaScript framework targeting web app developers, is causing quite a stir on Twitter and Hacker News. One of the company’s biggest claims is that its open-source technology will enable hot code updates that won’t disturb app users. Read more »
