
Applications

Everyone uses applications on a daily basis. Building, integrating and running them requires quite a bit from people and systems. Application development has recently undergone a huge metamorphosis. In particular, the emergence of cloud-native application development has caused fundamental changes. AI, especially GenAI, has also caused a major shift. Finally, the world’s largest OS, Microsoft Windows, also makes regular appearances on this page. You will stay up to date on all relevant application developments here.
Timeline

THL acquires digital asset management vendor Bynder for €330 million
Thomas H. Lee Partners will fork over $350 million (about €330 million) for a 58 percent majority stake in ...

Petals develops free distributed network for ChatGPT-like AI models
The technology allows the users of an AI model to contribute hardware capacity. Operating costs are distribut...

Salesforce CEO Benioff complains about productivity of new hires
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reportedly questioned the productivity of new employees in an internal Slack mess...

Google launches end-to-end encryption for Gmail web
Google recently announced end-to-end encryption for the web version of Gmail. The feature allows users to sen...

Google Docs integrates leading programming languages for slicker presentations
Google Docs will soon allow users to paste C/C++, Java, JavaScript and Python code into their documents. ...

Zoho adds new features to Zoho Desk
Zoho updated its customer service platform with new tooling for Zoho Desk. The tools should help customer ser...

Dropbox acquires FormSwift for €90 million
Dropbox announced the acquisition of document management software developer FormSwift. Dropbox bought the ...

Pantheon on Drupal 10: All around the new CMS
Language evolves. These days, even the Baby Boomers know what a Content Management System is and most of us c...

AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom want to democratize map data
The Linux Foundation is collaborating with AWS, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom to make quality open map data avai...

‘ChatGPT’s developer expects billion-euro revenue in 2024’
According to insiders, the company behind ChatGPT expects annual revenue of $1 billion (about €950 million)...