Microsoft acquires cross-platform mobile app power with HockeyApp

Adding to its toolset for cross-platform mobile applications, Microsoft has acquired a small German software company, called HockeyApp, that has developed a service for crash analysis and beta testing of mobile applications.Microsoft plans to fold the functionality into its own Visual Studio Online, a hosted service for managing the lifecycles of applications being developed by teams of programmers. There, it will be incorporated into the Visual Studio Online’s Application Insights portfoli