The W3C, an international standards organization for the Web, has just announced the first public working draft for the WebXR Device API. This new specification will move toward establishing standards for support of virtual reality and augmented reality devices on the Web. | Continue reading
Amazon has announced the release of the new Baby Activity Skill API, allowing users to enhance their baby care applications with hands-free tracking. This new functionality aims to increase user engagement by removing the need to open applications to directly input activity. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, eCommerce, and Performance. Highlights include APIs for determining user behavior, optimizing images, and managing cloud contacts. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Banks and Credit Unions have taken a segmented approach to integrating with third party apps. Banks vary in their tech resources and infrastructure and apps must choose which banks they are willing to integrate with. Plaid aims to enable every bank and credit union to integrate w … | Continue reading
At GDC 2019, Microsoft appears poised to debut a new SDK that will aim to streamline cross-platform gaming development, helping to expand the platform’s reach to Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch. The new SDK is believed to provide access to Xbox achievements, friends list, clubs … | Continue reading
ZeroBounce upgrades its global data center infrastructure by deploying high-availability clusters in the United States. The new data center responds to the growing demand for real-time email verification and is intended to better serve U.S. customers through the API. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sports, Data Mining, and Networking. Highlights include the Threat Stack API for cloud security operations monitoring, and the Entity Digital Sports Cricket API. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
Twitter recently revoked API access for several popular services that offer rapid and automated follow/unfollow functionality. The company claims that these applications were in violation of the platform’s terms and conditions, and had previously been warned about violating the r … | Continue reading
Engauge is a analog gauge maker. It's gauges test many functions from fan speed to usage. The gauges were initially designed to monitor PC performance, but the gauges can now monitor any electronic device that they interface with. A new API allows users to monitor from compatible … | Continue reading
Google recently announced that the Places SDK for Android has reached version 1.0.0. It replaces the Google Play Services version of the Places SDK, which has been deprecated and will eventually be turned off entirely. The core feature of the new Places SDK is a completely refres … | Continue reading
Smart2Pay is known as a hub for alternative payment solution providers. Its API offers access to main payment processors that aren't typically top of mind for merchants. Now, the company has launched a Mobile SDK that allows app developers to easily accept payment through WeChat … | Continue reading
Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Games, Video, and Transcription. Today's highlights include the OpenMobilityData API which enables developers to get access of thousands of transport data feeds. Here's a rundown of the latest add … | Continue reading
TrueLayer has introduced a PSD2-compliant Payments API. The API enables transfer of funds directly from bank account to bank account. It uses active authentication for the highest possible security, and transferred funds are received instantly. The API is currently in beta testin … | Continue reading
Many developers have adopted an API-first mentality when it comes to releasing new products and services. Logically, security providers should take an API-first strategy when designing threat protection solutions. Salt Security has launched an API Protection Platform with that mi … | Continue reading
Are you the best developer in your city? There’s one way to find out- test your knowledge! The new Developer Economics survey Q4 2018 is now open until February 3rd, 2019 for all developers around the world who want check out how well they know popular languages, tools, platforms … | Continue reading
The Kin foundation is looking to the social gaming industry to boost usage of its cryptocurrency. The company just launched a Unity SDK that allows developers to create buying and selling opportunities within their games. Currently, the SDK is available for Android with iOS comin … | Continue reading
This article provides you with a walk-through of userstack, an instant, secure, cloud-based REST API service for sniffing browsers and devices to parse the User-Agent string your customers arrive with. It's not exactly new but evolved from the well known and widely accepted UserA … | Continue reading
Threat Stack has released a new API that allows users to create security rules, send events to the platform, audit logs and more, all from within their existing DevOps tools. The company hopes that the API will enable DevOps teams to reduce the number of tools they must manage. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketplace, Big Data, and Blockchain. Featured today is the STAPI API, which provides Star Trek TV show, film, comics data and data from other sources. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Google has open sourced its Cloud Search Connector SDK. The goal is to ease search of third party content and identities within a company. Google originally partnered with around 50 partners around the world to build third-party connectivity for Cloud Search, and has now opened u … | Continue reading
Kraken has announced the release of a new websockets public API, providing faster access to market data on the company’s cryptocurrency exchange. The new API is still under wraps, with the company expecting to release globally by the end of January, while noting that the release … | Continue reading
Google uses a manifest method to test new features, phase others in, and others out. For the Chrome Extension platform, Google has published Manifest v3. The Manifest is open for public view, but subject to change. Major changes affect background processes, web-accessible resourc … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Mapping, Weather, and Addresses. Highlights include an API for free surface-based weather observations, and APIs for Natural Language Processing in news articles. Here's a rundown of the latest a … | Continue reading
Ping Identity's API security solution, PingIntelligence for APIs, recently received a series of improvements. New features include cloud-based access, detection of new/API-specific cyber threats, Splunk environment support, and an expanded portfolio of API gateways capable of int … | Continue reading
Aphelion wants to be the fastest, least expensive trading option available in the blockchain world. The company has built its platform on the NEO blockchain, which puts it outside the mainstream trading environment. Soon, Aphelion will have cross chain integration and an API to b … | Continue reading
GoodSender claimed its latest victim: the Telegram Bot API. Telegram is known for the strong encryption it provides in its messaging platform. However, the same level encryption is not used for the Bot API. Luckily for Telegram, the Bot API is less popular and just over 100 users … | Continue reading
SurchX, today announced that its fee recovery product is now available to merchants operating in the United States. SurchX’s API uses sophisticated algorithms that enable retailers to securely pass merchants’ fees for credit card transactions onto the customer. | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Blockchain technology company Blockstream launched the beta version of its Blockstream Satellite API. The API allows users a way to create applications that broadcast private data messages worldwide using the Blockstream Satellite network to anyone with a satel … | Continue reading
Recent reports and Android open source documentation indicate an Android Game SDK for Unity is in the works. Neither Google nor Unity has made announcements regarding the project; however, the move is a natural step for both Google and Unity given the current mobile device and ga … | Continue reading
Kong announced two new features that aim to simplify API development with the assistance of AI and ML. The new tools, Kong Brain and Kong immunity, have been added to the company’s Kong Enterprise platform and automate processes that include documentation, configuration, and traf … | Continue reading
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Documents, Air Travel, and Home Automation. Highlights include an API for fitness centers, and an API for integrating Speakap enterprise social networks. Here's a rundown of the latest addition … | Continue reading
TensorFlow 2.0 is almost here. The team originally announced TensorFlow 2.0 late last year, and now more details have been announced. A public preview is expected in early this year with a new central API model, new features, changes, and a particular focus on experimentation. | Continue reading
Salesforce announced a suite of tools aimed at alleviating the pressure placed on companies to develop competitive mobile experiences. With the release of Lightning Platform Mobile, Salesforce is providing a low-code development environment that should help jumpstart the mobile a … | Continue reading
Google wants to ensure a greater percentage of apps have 64-bit versions for newer devices. That's why Google recently revealed a revised set of deadlines for developers, who will need to update their apps if they want to continue distributing them via the Play Store. Here's what … | Continue reading
APIs have a natural lifecycle and at times there is a need to close them down or transition to a new approach. Each lifecycle stage brings with it a specific focus, a single question that should be top-of-mind. Your answer to these five questions will inform how your API moves th … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, News Services, and Authentication. Featured APIs include an API for Instagram content publishing for businesses and an API for public records and government transparency. Here's a look … | Continue reading
Google has released a stable version of Android Studio 3.3 that the company says is focused on delivering a refined experience and higher quality and stability. By taking developer feedback to heart, Google believes Android Studio 3.3 will help keep application writers productive … | Continue reading
Salesforce has announced a set of upgrades to Commerce Cloud, the company’s cloud-based commerce solution that provides tools for building unified buying experiences across all customer touchpoints. These new tools are headlined by AI-enhanced APIs that help to encourage user en … | Continue reading
JETCO has opened an API exchange for banks regional to Hong Kong. The exchange provides a single access point to over 200 APIs from 13 banks. The APIs provide access to banking services offered from the participant banks. The API exchange is open for developers across industries. | Continue reading
This week Microsoft announced a few updates to their Azure Blockchain Workbench, a platform for building blockchain applications. The release of v 1.6.0 brings with it new features including application versions, an egress messaging API, and streamlined smart contract development … | Continue reading
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Hardware, and Networking. Highlights include APIs for retrieving digital content from the University of California, and an API which returns the elevation of an application user. | Continue reading
Instagram has updated the Content Publishing API, a subset of the Instagram Graph API endpoints, to allow members with business accounts to schedule the publication of video content. Until recently, only direct photo publishing was available through the API. | Continue reading
RigoBlock has taken the next step in its vision to empower developers to build their own decentralized asset management platforms. The company is offering API access to the same protocol on which it built its own platform. The protocol creates a pool of tokens available for decen … | Continue reading
Ockam refers to itself as the Twilio of IoT. With that tagline, it's hoping to make IoT developers' lives much easier with simple IoT development tools that scale and interoperate with ease. Accordingly, the Ockam SDK is now open sourced at GitHub. SDK users become part of the Oc … | Continue reading
Amazon's voice-controlled assistant Alexa had another big year at the Consumer Electronics Show. Companies near and far added Alexa to their smart home, mobile, and even automotive products. If you thought Alexa was already everywhere, you're sadly mistaken. Here's where Alexa is … | Continue reading
Spotware has released the second version of its open trading platform API: cTrader Open API. Unlike its private API, which is available to brokers only, cTrader Open API is available for anyone who is interested in building tools for traders. V2.0 opts for Protocol Buffering inst … | Continue reading
Square has announced the release of a software development kit that provides developers with all the tools necessary to accept payments in their applications via Square. The In-App Payments SDK is available for iOS, Android, and Flutter. | Continue reading
A trading strategy is a set of rules used to execute trades, which will vary depending on the trader’s approach to the markets. It is a key element to API trading and in this article, we will provide a brief overview of strategy development using principles of technical analysis. | Continue reading