One of the most anticipated news is here! Tech behemoths reported their earnings yesterday: Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and others incredibly raised their profits in the first quarter of 2017. Check out an article to find actual figures.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/technology/quarterly-earnings-cloud-computing-amazon-microsoft-alphabet.html

A monthly digest of the brightest GitHub Swift and Objective-C open source releases.

https://yalantis.com/blog/april-2017-four-new-github-open-source-libraries/

Today Microsoft launched Windows 10 S. It's a lighter version of Windows 10 and focused on the education market. Can Microsoft's brand new Windows 10 S beat Chrome OS? We'll see.

https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-windows-10-s/

Airbnb has acquired Deco Software a company that built Deco IDE for creating React Native apps. The full team of Deco Software is joining Airbnb while their product is becoming open source.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/airbnb-has-acquired-partner-deco-software-deco-ide-is/

Healthy, trust-based relationships are the key to your platform's success. Especially taking into account that strong community is one of the most powerful drivers of platform's popularity. So how can you help your users trust each other and use your service? Find out in our latest article.

https://yalantis.com/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-product-hunt-about-building-trust/

Apple updated its App Analytics service for mobile app developers. Now it has more details about users behavior and their opinion about your app.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/04/apple-updates-its-analytics-service-with-new-metrics-showing-how-apps-get-discovered/

Every technology we are used to, looked like a fiction some time ago. The same is about reading someone's mind. Just a few years ago, this sounded like a part of a superhero movie. Now, reading minds is taken seriously by scientists and developers.
And here's a logical question about the practical usage of this technology. Will advertisers be able to find their way into your conscious and provide you with highly targeted ads?

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/07/will-ads-be-able-to-read-your-mind/

React Native is one of the most popular trends among developers now. With its very emergence, the approach to creating cross-platform apps changed. So we examined how it feels to build a mobile app with React Native being an Android developer and share our experience with you.

https://yalantis.com/blog/react-native-from-an-android-developer-perspective/

Recently, Facebook held their annual F8 conference. The main focus was on VR, AR, and AI. We carefully investigated what all the novelties mean for developers.

https://yalantis.com/blog/facebook-announcements-at-f8-2017-and-what-they-mean-for-developers/

Check out this lovely French Fox sticker created by our designer Darya Ermolova for Playoff France Sticker Design Contest🤗

https://dribbble.com/shots/3486515-French-Fox

We're launching paid summer internship for copywriters! So if you are in Dnipro and want to learn how to write for one of the best mobile development blogs worldwide then we wait for you.
You'll find all the details about our internship through the link below.

https://goo.gl/eDKfZb

Here's a new Behance project by our designer Darya Ermolova. Check out this inspiring totem illustration that brightens up our office now.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/52425517/My-Totem

Cloud Spanner that was announced three months ago by Google is now available globally. This relational database service is out of beta and now everyone can use the same software that Google uses to power Google Play and AdWords.

https://goo.gl/FWHgte

Digital era changed the way marketing agencies operate. They face with new challenges and the whole workflow looks different now. Today, we focus on how a digital agency can find a long-term partner to outsource software development.

https://yalantis.com/blog/how-to-find-a-reliable-software-development-service-provider-for-your-digital-agency/

A few years ago, software developers were skeptical about cross-platform development. But today, there are some new advantages of cross-platform development with modern, more advanced tools.

https://goo.gl/4yl68L

Kotlin became an official language for Android development. Google announced first-class support for Kotlin at Google I/O 2017.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/

Bitcoin reached a new peak of $2000 per coin. And it's not the only cryptocurrency on the rise. As the result, Bitcoin no longer has the majority of the market - it constitutes 47% now.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/20/btc2k/

A huge number of brands use mobile platforms as a powerful marketing tool. Mobile apps and bots humanize brands and facilitate better interactions between brands and customers, which allows brands to increase loyalty and, thus, sales. Here are some benefits apps bring to brands and mistakes to avoid when creating a branded mobile app.

https://yalantis.com/blog/mobile-app-as-a-brand-marketing-channel/

Google named the winners of 2017 Google Play Awards at Google I/O conference. We can't wait to tell you what makes them best. Here's the full list of the nominees and winners and what criteria are the most important for Google and global developer community when choosing top apps and games of the year.

https://yalantis.com/blog/best-apps-by-2017-google-play-awards/

A lot of big companies claim that there are not enough skilled data scientists to fill market demand. Airbnb decided to solve this problem and open its own data science university.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/airbnb-is-running-its-own-internal-university-to-teach-data-science/