Earlier this week during Microsoft’s Ignite conference, the company made several announcements, including full support for the Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, general availability of the Microsoft Graph Security API, and a public preview of SQL Server 2019. | Continue reading
Google has bolstered the capabilities of its Android Management API with new work profiles and mobile device support. This makes the API a more well-rounded tool for businesses to take advantage of when provisioning and managing Android devices deployed across their enterprise. | Continue reading
Weather Underground will retire its API at the end of 2018. Weather Underground was acquired by The Weather Company in 2012. The Weather Company was acquired by IBM in 2015. Now, IBM infrastructure is better suited to meet the enterprise-grade demands of the Weather Underground d … | Continue reading
Amazon has announced a preview of its new Alexa Presentation Language (APL) which allows developers to build visual Alexa skills that are voice-first and can be customized for different types of devices. Amazon has also announced the availability of a new Alexa Skills Kit SDK Fra … | Continue reading
Five APIs as well as a notable SDK have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Auto, Voice, Business, Mapping, and Currency. Featured today is the MarketFactory Whisperer API for FX trade aggregation, and the Alexa Auto SDK. Here's a look at what's ne … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Twitter reported a bug related to its Account Activity API. Twitter has since investigated the matter with potentially affected partners and taken remediation efforts. Now, Twitter has reported the exact requirements for the bug to have potentially affected partn … | Continue reading
MuleSoft has announced the Winter 2018 release of its Anypoint Platform for managing APIs and enterprise integrations. Similar to a social graph, the release offers a bird's-eye view of an organization's application network graph. The release also uses machine learning to ease da … | Continue reading
Stronghold has released a set of APIs that developers can use to add to apps a variety of payment instruments including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Lumens. The APIs also allow apps to leverage Stronghold platform capabilities such as generate quotes, trade cryptocurrencies, and get av … | Continue reading
Arxan Technologies, provider of application protection solutions, announced the launch of Arxan for Web, the latest update to its protection solution for client-side web apps. Arxan for Web provides a multi-layered defensive approach that allows companies to defend against server … | Continue reading
If you are building an app, you will have to tackle setting up access control for it. Access control is the process of granting your users permission to access certain information. What are the different approaches to access control and which approaches are best suited to differe … | Continue reading
12 more APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Payments, Location, Infrastructure, and Security. Highlights include the GeoDataSource API which returns data about cities based on geolocation input. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
A few months after Facebook announced a new app review process in the wake of numerous Facebook app-related scandals, Facebook is about to make the process automatically enforced. To date, developers have had the option to enroll for review, or avoid the process. That is changing … | Continue reading
simPRO, a business management software provider focused on the trade service industries, has launched an API for integrating its services with third party applications. The API grants access to simPRO's entire suite of Enterprise and Service level features. The API will be availa … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sentiment, Analytics, and Auto. Featured APIs include the Twinword Emotion Analysis API for analyzing sentiment in text, and the Google Cloud Inference API, currently in Alpha release. Here's a l … | Continue reading
DrChrono has announced upgrades to the DrChrono API which includes some new endpoints such as are Clinical Quality Measures (CQM), Clinical Notes, Tasks, Billing, and Labs. The company has also added new webhooks to the DrChrono API and launched a new FHIR API that focuses on pat … | Continue reading
This week Facebook expanded their bug bounty program to now accept reports about vulnerabilities in third-party apps and services that connect to Facebook user accounts in addition to reports related to its own products. This is the social giant's latest nod towards protecting it … | Continue reading
Google today released a new preview version of Flutter to developers. Flutter is Google's set of tools for quickly designing and implementing user interfaces for Android and iOS devices. The search giant hopes to have a 1.0 release of Flutter ready for developers in the near futu … | Continue reading
Chatbot systems have greatly evolved the customer service space with rapid, personalized responses that can save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars. OnSched provides a complete Consumer, and Setup, REST API to build online booking right into your chatbot's responses and … | Continue reading
Google is testing its Cloud Inference API in an alpha release. The API allows developers to index and load datasets from multiple data sources from Google Cloud Storage, execute inference queries over loaded datasets, unload or cancel datasets, and get status updates for datasets … | Continue reading
Amazon has released the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit (Beta) which includes a number of self-service APIs, technical documentation, and sample code that developers can use to build an Alexa Gadget that incorporates some of the available Gadget Interfaces such as wake word detection, spee … | Continue reading
For the second time in six months, a Grindr API security flaw has exposed location data of Grindr users. The latest security flaw involves a private Grindr API that fails to block third party access. Developers have exposed the flaw and are able to track the location of users to … | Continue reading
Rookout, a company focused on production debugging, has released the first collaborative solution to debug live code on demand, including in production. Rookout’s Workspaces feature works like “Google Docs” for debugging live code, letting developers share an IDE together to trac … | Continue reading
Kong Inc., a microservices API company, has announced Kong 1.0, the latest version of its open-source microservice API gateway. This latest version of the Kong platform includes a variety of features such as support for service mesh deployments and Kubernetes Ingress controller. | Continue reading
Twinword, a company providing text analysis APIs, has announced the launch of their Emotion Analysis API. The API is capable of analyzing a paragraph of text and identifying six different emotions to help marketers understand their users and tailor apps to how they are feeling. | Continue reading
Google recently released a beta version of Chrome 70. In addition to updates to its Web Authentication API, Chrome 70 includes access to the Shape Detection API through a Chrome origin trial. The API allows faces, barcodes, and text to be detected within images found on the web. | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Insurance, and Supply Chain. Featured today is the Aidlab API for interacting with health and fitness biosensors, and Tyntec cloud communication APIs. Here's a rundown of the latest ad … | Continue reading
This week, customer engagement company Urban Airship released a beta SDK for iOS in advance of the public release of iOS 12. The SDK offers full support for Grouped Notifications, Critical Alerts and Provisional Authorization, three new features that are meant to give users more … | Continue reading
Microsoft has released a new Microsoft 365 Secure Score API which includes new updates such as are integration with Microsoft’s Security Graph API, addition of dual entities, and availability in the Microsoft Graph Explorer. This API replaces the original Microsoft Office 365 Sec … | Continue reading
HubSpot announced a beta for its Calling API. The API allows third party telephony providers to use their own calling features with HubSpot. Without this API, HubSpot partners needed to rely on HubSpot's native calling features. The beta is open to Sales Hub and Service Hub Enter … | Continue reading
We recently covered a competition that asks developers to create tools that will aid in natural disaster preparedness and relief. In light of this, and with Hurricane Florence fast approaching the Carolinas, we wanted to make sure Developers could find the tools they need to buil … | Continue reading
eBay has introduced HeadGaze, a technology that allows users to control an iPhone through head motions. The technology uses Apple's ARKit and resulted in a test app that allows users to swipe through deals on eBay (HeadSwipe). eBay has open sourced the technology and posted on Gi … | Continue reading
Bloomberg has launched Enterprise Access Point, a website that provides "ready-to-use" datasets which includes regulatory, pricing, and reference. The website also allows clients to use a RESTful API to programmatically retrieve complete and comprehensive data from Bloomberg's pu … | Continue reading
Apple today announced three new iPhones and a pair of Apple Watches. This hardware will run the latest operating systems from Apple: iOS 12 for the iPhones and watchOS 5 for the Watch. Apple has put together a guide for developers to help them ensure their apps are prepared for t … | Continue reading
With no prior warning, Twitter has changed how apps can access images sent through Twitter's Direct Message API. Twitter was unable to give prior notice for security purposes, but the changes are in effect. Twitter encourages developers who access images through the API to check … | Continue reading
Clearcover has expanded its car insurance API platform to include SmartLink and a Lead API along with a Quote API. Using these APIs, partners can integrate with applications Clearcover platform capabilities such as data collection, display prices, and view changes to coverage ele … | Continue reading
The Xillio API is a content connectivity platform through which developers build integrations from their applications to any popular content repository. Xillio takes care of all the content system connectivity behind the scenes, no matter how many different systems they want to a … | Continue reading
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Messaging, and Privacy. Featured today are APIs for tracking time, enabling payment services, and adding reviews services to applications. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
Google's Photos Library API is now generally available. The API helps developers easily consume and use photos and videos through connecting, uploading, and sharing functionality. While the API is open for use, Google introduced a Google Photos partner program for large integrati … | Continue reading
Mux has launched its Live Streaming API which makes it possible for developers to integrate Mux live streaming video capabilities with applications by adding only a few lines of code. Developers can use the API to build apps that support scalable live video streaming on mobile, d … | Continue reading
The Call for Code Global Initiative, which aims to encourage developers to "drive positive and long-lasting change across the world with their code", is running a challenge that asks developers to build solutions that aid in nature disaster preparedness and relief. IBM supports t … | Continue reading
Afinis, a membership-based standards organization, is looking to advance API standardization efforts across the financial services ecosystem through formal governance. This includes a platform for standardized API product discovery, application testing, and developer collaboratio … | Continue reading
Ten more APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Auto, and Marketing. Highlights include the Sonos API for home sound automation and the Arcentry API for architectural diagram creation. Here's a look at what is new for developers. | Continue reading
Google this week began to make its staged release feature available to Android developers. The idea behind this functionality is to let app writers seed their applications to a small number of users to ensure there are no bugs before a wider rollout to the entire installed base. | Continue reading
Here Mobility has launched its HERE Mobility SDK. The SDK aims to democratize the mobile ecosystem by offering developers access to mobility services and map & location services. The SDK was originally beta tested by a select group and then tested through various hackathons. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories eCommerce, Location, and PDF. Featured today is an API for processing webpages into PDF documents automatically, and APIs for the OrgHunter philanthropic enabled business platform. Here's a rundown of the la … | Continue reading
Developers can often miss an important aspect of API development - scaling the API. To scale the API, you must look into offloading the administrative functions of multiple APIs in their apps. Scaling of the API at the design phase is crucial to the success of API adoption in the … | Continue reading
Just a few months after Google entirely restructured its pricing scheme for Google Maps, TomTom has announced that maps and traffic tiles will be freely available on its Android and iOS SDKs. While the free option is new, there is a cap to features and transactions permissible wi … | Continue reading
Forget about the free food, and ping pong tables, to keep a hold of developers, you need to think like one too. You must create an environment which encourages your team to stay put, and grow together. Here are four tips for retaining your development talent for the long term. | Continue reading