Rally Software, a company that provides Agile project management applications for software development, has filed its initial S-1 for a public offering. According to this filing, the company will raise as much as $70 million in the offering (but often these numbers are just placeholders).

Rally’s products and services help businesses implement Agile software development and Lean practices with the right combination of tools, services and best practices.

Google seems to be looking to bring its ambitious Google Glass wearable computer to market much faster than many likely anticipated, according to the Verge. Google told the site that it hopes to have a "fully-polished" version of Glass available for sale to ordinary consumers by the end of 2013. The cost will be under the $1,500 Google was asking for developer-targeted editions of the headsets put up for pre-order first at Google I/O, and then again earlier this week.

Dublin and San Francisco-based Swrve, which offers an in-app direct marketing platform aimed at mobile games developers or anybody making or responsible for marketing an app, has launched SwrveTalk to enable in-app marketing messages to be sent to users on a targeted and measurable basis. It can be employed to do things like cross-promote other titles in a portfolio or to improve conversion of time-limited in-app purchase offers, and so on.

Last year, James Smith and Simon Maynard left mobile gaming startup Heyzap, where Smith was the CTO, to build and launch a new venture that aimed to tackle one of the biggest problems they encountered in working with mobile developers: The need for better crash detection. In an attempt to bring some continuity to the fragmented set of point solutions developers use to monitor and capture errors in their applications, Smith and Maynard set out to create an affordable, full-stack monitoring service to allow businesses to easily track errors in both mobile and web apps, via a single dashboard.

If you don't trust Facebook, you might keep an account, but you won't share as much. So Facebook is aiming to educate users about privacy in the hopes that they'll keep doubling the amount they share each year and uphold Zuckerberg's Law. Facebook privacy can't just be "good enough." It needs us confident in our control, because as it runs low on people to sign up, attracting more data is the main way it will grow.

APIs are the glue that connect apps. It's as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise.

As APIs rise in importance, so has the need for better practices in their creation, development and management. All the major API management services have built strategies that they use as guiding principles when working with customers.