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APIs have become a critical part of the Web, especially if you're a developer. If you want to tap into some of the most useful sites out there, then an

Leading virtualization company VMware announced today that it's acquiring SpringSource for $326 million in cash, plus another $58 million worth of stock and options. SpringSource will retain its executives and

Assembla, which makes collaborative workspaces for software development teams, has added a version you can download in order to run private installations. Every day, more pure play SaaS vendors in

Douglas Rushkoff — author, documentarian, and teacher — is a man on a mission. As a step towards getting "people to see the software-like code lying underneath how they interact,"

Proprietary intranet vendors, be scared. Be very scared. Today, Development Seed, the open source shop behind DrupalCon in DC and other endeavors, has released the public beta of Open Atrium.

This month, Atlassian launched the 2.0 versions of Crucible and FishEye, their collaborative software for coders. For those who're unfamiliar, FishEye is a browser for source code repositories, and Crucible