I’ve mentioned that experienced Node.js talent is hard to find, but here’s a look at a few of jobs that these rare developers are being asked to do. Braintree Payments Braintree Payments is looking for a developer to work on a variety of projects, and the company isn’t shy about its use of Node.js, noting: ...

Today Accenture announced that it has agreed to acquire Neo Metrics Analytics, a consulting firm based in Spain that specializes in predictive analytics. In addition to Neo Metrics’ research and development capabilities, Accenture will acquire the firm’s modeling tools, which enable users to analyze data from any data source. Terms of the deal, which is ...

Finding developers with expertise in Node.js is beyond challenging. The platform is still very young and the rate of adoption is rising faster than the pool of developers versed in it. One new company, The Node Firm, hopes to help solve that problem by offering “bite sized” consulting to companies in need of Node.js help. ...

We told you Joyent is a company to watch in 2012. And today it landed an extra $85 million in funding in advance of NodeSummit, an event dedicated to the open source JavaScript platform Node.js. Since hiring Node.js creator Ryan Dahl in 2009, Joyent has been Node.js’s major corporate backer and the company offers a ...

RIM has announced that co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie will step down and will be replaced with current COO Thorsten Heins. The news follows rumor that Samsung was in talks to acquire all or part of RIM (a rumor that Samsung denies). RIM has struggled in recent years despite increased sales as Android and ...

In an interview on ZDNet Capgemini CTO Andy Mulholland talks about the rise of cloud services and the changing role of IT in the enterprise. The CEOs are quite noticeably reading the right articles, hearing the right information from business schools, etc., and they’re getting this picture that they’re going to have new business models ...

Microsoft’s Q2 profits beat analyst expectations, but are lower than this quarter last year due to smaller margins. The margin squeeze was caused by Microsoft’s increased X-Box sales, which have smaller margins than its Windows license sales, and a continually challenging PC market (for example, netbook sales dropped from 8% of the market a year ...

While some attention is given to Windows 8’s locked bootloader,  somewhat less is paid to the Windows Store, the  coming exclusive channel for Metro apps. Other types of apps will still run on Windows 8 without Microsoft’s approval, so it does not quite have the Apple level of control over the apps that run on iOS.  But Metro ...

ActiveState today announced a few new features for its Cloud Foundry based private platform-as-a-service Stackato. Last week the company added HP Cloud Services to its list of supported cloud providers. Today the company added OpenStack, Linux KVM and Citrix XenServer, plus a new graphical management console. Stackato also supports Amazon EC2 and VMware vSphere. Like ...

Yesterday I talked to Up and Running with Node.js author and Jetpacks for Dinosaurs principal Tom Hughes-Croucher. I already shared his thoughts on the relationship between DevOps and Node.js. Prior to starting Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, Hughes-Croucher was a developer advocate for Node.js sponsor company Joyent (one of our open source startups to watch in 2012). ...