PayPal has announced its second and expanded developer challenge for PayPal X. The company will award innovative payments-enabled apps and services that utilize PayPal X. The grand prize is worth $100,000 – $50,000, and will be deposited directly into the winner’s PayPal account. Another $50,000 will go towards waived transaction fees. A spokesperson for PayPal

Google has posted a “quick primer” for game development on Android. The post outlines four basic steps: 1. Decide on a target device class 2. Pick a language 3. Carefully design the best game ever 4. Profit Obviously each of these steps comes with significantly more detail. Read the post here. The author does provide

AdMob, the mobile ad firm recently acquired by Google has an interesting post on its blog talking about how paid advertising can help developers influence their App Store rank. “Most iPhone developers understand the importance of App Store rank in driving organic app installs,” says AdMob’s Vicky H. “High position in the App Store means

Adobe announced that the Adobe AIR 2 runtime is now available for download (Windows, Mac, and Linux). It can be found here. Features include: Native Process API Open documents with the user’s default application Microphone data access Mass storage device detection Updated, faster WebKit with enhanced support for HTML5 and CSS3 Multi-touch and gestures TLS/SSL

Twitter announced today that it has acquired the Smallthought Systems, creators of Dabble DB. Twitter’s Kevin Weil writes: Up until about a year ago, we used an online database called Dabble DB to track and share information about our projects internally. While we’ve since moved that project management tool in-house, we maintain a relationship with

eBay revealed the winners of its 2010 Star Developer Awards today. These awards highlight third-party developers who have driven innovative solutions that help streamline the selling process on eBay, the company says. “eBay’s developer community continues to create innovative applications on the eBay platform that help improve the experience for buyers and margins for sellers,

Yahoo gave an update on its cloud storage platform, Sherpa today. Yahoo says the service addresses scalability, availability, and latency needs of Yahoo sites. “Sherpa is horizontally scalable, and supports this scale elastically based on capacity demands. Sherpa is globally deployed within Yahoo! and data is replicated asynchronously (typically under a second) across data centers.

Steve Jobs gave his big keynote address today, unveiling the iPhone 4. He also rattled off a number of stats and talked about various things related to apps. Apple has received plenty of criticism for not approving apps. Jobs says the most common reasons apps don’t get approved right away in the apps store are:

Throughout the week, Google has been posting a lot of information from Google I/O on its various blogs. Today, they posted info from a presentation about how Chrome’s developer tools can improve productivity. There was a whole lot to take it an I/O. Believe me I know. I was covering it. There are no doubt