By John Glenday

Microsoft is set to bolster its mobile app development business with the purchase of Xamarin, offering the tech giant a new tool to realise its ambition of writing cross platform apps capable of working on iOS, Android and Windows devices.

Xamarin has secured clients ranging from Coca-Cola to JetBlue on the back of software which enables developers to test prototype apps on thousands of cloud-hosted devices.

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise executive vice president said: “We have had a longstanding relationship with Xamarin. With today’s acquisition announcement we will be taking this work much further to make our world class developer Read full story ›

Source: The Drum