Beth Romanik

Beth Romanik is TechWell's online editor, managing everything you see published on our family of thought-leadership sites. She edits and publishes articles for TechWell Insights, StickyMinds, AgileConnection, CMCrossroads, and Better Software magazine. She has worked for several other newspapers, magazines, and sites of all kinds. Beth is excited about new developments in technology, but she'll always have a soft spot for paper and ink.

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Adobe Switching to Subscription-Based Creative Cloud

Adobe, the manufacturer of choice for many creative professionals, said it will not release new versions of its Creative Suite tools. Instead it will solely support a subscription-only model in its Creative Cloud, allowing for more capabilities and as-released updates. But customers are skeptical.

Chat Apps Overtake SMS Messaging for the First Time Worldwide

Some popular chat apps have surpassed traditional SMS in the number of text messages received worldwide. Last year, for the first time more messages were sent with apps—such as WhatsApp and Viber, iMessage and BBM—than with regular texting. But will this be a disaster for mobile carriers?

Apple Announces 45 Billion Apps Downloaded, $9 Billion to Developers

Apple 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.

Growth of API Usage Sparks New Management Tools

Open 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.

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!

Three Tips to Help Form a Highly Productive Agile Team

The dynamic of working in a team is vastly different from working on your own. But if a team is assembled well, it can accomplish more than the individuals could have separately. These suggestions will help you form a team that will work together well and be greater than the sum of its parts.

Continuing its language domination in the mobile app development world, JavaScript can now be used to update native iOS and Android apps thanks to a new hybrid model on the market. JavaScript remains a top programming language, and it doesn't look like the trend will change any time soon.

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