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	How Waste Impacts Software DeliveryConstant delays at the Brisbane Airport in Australia cost airlines $75 million last year. This hefty cost is not adding any value to the airlines or to the passengers. Venkatesh Krishnamurthy relates this news of financial waste to what he sees as a software delivery coach.	Venkatesh Krishnamurthy April 26, 2013
	Apple Announces 45 Billion Apps Downloaded, $9 Billion to DevelopersApple announced in its Q2 earnings call to investors this week that app downloads have passed the 45 billion milestone, only four months after hitting the 40 billion mark in January. To date, the company has paid out to developers more than $9 billion—half of that in the last year alone.	Beth Romanik April 25, 2013
	Will Mobile App Development Slow Due to New Privacy Laws? A recent extension to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act has mobile application developers scrambling to not only follow the new laws but also just to understand them—and the penalties that come with them. Some believe the laws can in fact be followed, but more time is needed to comply.	Noel Wurst April 25, 2013
	Growth of API Usage Sparks New Management ToolsOpen APIs have become not only available, but prevalent, giving capabilities to photo, video, messaging, mapping, music, and news outlets. ProgrammableWeb's directory of web service APIs now numbers more than 8,000. With increased API usage, the need for help managing APIs also is growing.	Beth Romanik April 24, 2013
	Applying Test-Driven Development to Android Development Test-driven development (TDD) is a cornerstone practice for agile development teams, but Android development poses some significant challenges to a test-driven approach. With the right testing framework, an Android development team can maintain velocity while following TDD practices.	Jacob Orshalick April 23, 2013
	Hubbl App's Spacebar Platform Uses Contextual Ads to Promote Apps Hubbl is an app that helps people discover other apps based on their interests. Through partnerships with content distributors, Hubbl’s B2B platform Spacebar will suggest apps based on the subject matter of the webpage the user is looking at—a sort of contextual advertising. Integration!	Beth Romanik April 23, 2013
	What Google's Move to Blink Means for Web DevelopersSome web developers felt a disturbance in the force when Google recently announced that the Chrome browser will be moving on within the coming months from WebKit to Blink, its new open source rendering engine that’s based on WebKit. Pamela Rentz looks at what this move will mean for web developers.	Pamela Rentz April 22, 2013
	Java 8 Gets 2014 Release Date as Java 7 Patches Continue It's safe to say that Java 7 didn't go quite as smoothly as Oracle wanted since multiple major security flaws have been exposed since its release. Oracle's not taking any chances with the much-anticipated Java 8. They've recently announced a newly delayed March 2014 release date.	Noel Wurst April 22, 2013