McLeod Software, transportation management and trucking software solutions provider, introduced a new Digital Freight Matching (DFM) web service API for its PowerBroker TMS product. Through the API, developers can integrate third party freight and capacity matching data into brok … | Continue reading
OpenText announced the launch of the new OpenText Trading Grid, a new cloud integration services platform. The launch combines multi-enterprise integration capabilities with a modern, microservices architecture as well as data visualization from OpenText ALLOY. | Continue reading
ProgrammableWeb has launched a special resource center to help developers find the top COVID-19 related APIs and other appdev resources. It is meant to provide developers with the most up to date information and tools to help them build solutions related to the coronavirus pandem … | Continue reading
Wine has been around for thousands of years, so it's only natural so many developers have an interest in creating applications for wine lovers. ProgrammableWeb lists dozens of Wine APIs and SDKs in its directory. In this article, we highlight the 8 most popular ones, based on web … | Continue reading
Twenty-one APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, Blockchain, and Agriculture. Featured today are several more COVID-19 APIs, an API for student exchange admissions, and an API for accessing agribusiness data. Here's a look at w … | Continue reading
Apple and Google today announced a joint effort to create Bluetooth-enabled technology, in addition to cross-platform APIs, that will allow for global contact tracing via Android and iOS devices. The companies note that the initiative is being designed with user privacy in mind. | Continue reading
Over the past two months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected more than 1,000,000 people across more than 200 countries. | Continue reading
TensorFlow has added the Quantization Aware Training (QAT) API to its TensorFlow Model Optimization Toolkit. QAT allows developers to train and deploy models in a manner that leverages both quantization and accuracy. Information loss typically associated with quantization is carv … | Continue reading
Appdome is introducing Appdome for SandBlast App Protect, a no-code solution that empowers organizations to build Check Point's mobile threat defense service into Android and iOS apps and combine it with Appdome app-level security to achieve comprehensive protection. | Continue reading
Facebook today announced Data Use Checkup. The aptly named process is an annual occurrence that will require developers to use a self-service tool to check each application they manage for adherence to company standards. This process aims to ensure that developers are using data … | Continue reading
WSO2 recently announced the availability of the latest iteration of the company’s open-source API management solution. Version 3.0 of WSO2 API Manager was announced in October of last year, this week’s announcement of v3.1 is the first dot-level release to the product since that … | Continue reading
Institutions will now be able to trade on every single crypto market simultaneously thanks to GlobalX, an API platform launched on March 31 by San Francisco-based firm Apifiny. Apifiny hired former executives of Google X, Kraken and AlphaPoint to promote the service. | Continue reading
Google is heavily involved in combatting COVID-19. But, it's also taking steps to ease the pain its developer community is feeling as a result of the pandemic. It is delaying the sunset date for the Google Ads API v1 and publishing resources to help developers navigate the curren … | Continue reading
Google has announced an open beta release of an all-new Admob API. Google is providing the API specifically for application providers using AdMob, the company’s platform for promoting and monetizing mobile applications. The API provides data that more accurately mirrors the AdMo … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, Cryptocurrency, and Financial. Highlights include more COVID-19 APIs, Weatherbit Climate API, and the API-first email server Mailcheap API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions … | Continue reading
OpenMed announced the launch of the "Corona Checker" App on iOS App Store and "OpenMed Checker" on Google Play - an AI symptom evaluator coupled with coordinated definitive testing through a network of CLIA certified labs and medical professionals to provide test sampling, for qu … | Continue reading
Google's Local Home SDK integrates with Google Assistant and enables it to run services local to the Google Assistant rather than in the cloud. In turn, Google Assistant users experience less latency and more reliability. Now, the Local Home SDK is out of developer preview with t … | Continue reading
Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, has lit the Bat-Signal, this time the hero that is needed is developers that have experience working with COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). The demand for capable developers is urgent, with legacy unemployment insurance systems curre … | Continue reading
Coding Dojo just announced Tech for America. As a leading technology education company, Coding Dojo is aims to unleash 4500 of its alumni to volunteer in web and software development roles for businesses in need due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At launch, more than 100 have already … | Continue reading
Cameras are everywhere, and likely pointed at you this very moment. It's no wonder this fast advancing technology has lured developers to create camera applications. Developers can find the best Cameras APIs for their projects in the ProgrammableWeb directory. Here are the 10 mos … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, Transportation, Blockchain, and QR Codes. Highlights include 4 more COVID-19 APIs, plus an API for Gig Worker, a payments solution for companies to pay freelancers and contractors. | Continue reading
Sendbird has announced the addition of voice and video calling APIs to augment its existing chat and messaging API offering. The technology relies on the World Wide Web Consortium's WebRTC standard and offers customers an opportunity to consolidate their in-app communications dow … | Continue reading
Over the past two months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected nearly 1,000,000 people across more than 200 countries. | Continue reading
In February of this year Radar Labs, Inc., a provider of location data infrastructure, announced the private beta release of several new APIs that handle geocoding, search, and distance. These APIs are now being moved into general availability and are receiving more affordable p … | Continue reading
ConvertAPI is a web service used by software developers to convert Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, HTML documents, PDF files and numerous other formats. It has already performed over 1 trillion conversions for 6,000 companies since its launch in 201 … | Continue reading
What data formats do API developers turn to when building APIs? Is JSON the dominant format while XML is a relic of the past? What do the data formats tell us about modern APIs? This article looks at our directory data to see what data formats are the most popular choices among A … | Continue reading
The Allen Institute for AI has introduced the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). CORD-19 is a free, open-source database that includes 45,000 scholarly articles about COVID-19 and the coronavirus family of viruses. CORD-19 is the latest of many open-source movements to com … | Continue reading
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Detective, a security service that aims to streamline the detection of security vulnerabilities across customer’s AWS workloads, has been transitioned to general availability. The Amazon Detective initial preview was originally announced in … | Continue reading
Launched in August last year, RateSV is a financial platform on the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain utilizing big data. Its goal is to provide a convenient and efficient channel for moving data to blockchains, with plans to expand to data sources outside of financials in the future. | Continue reading
Arduino, maker of credit-card sized computers that are easily adapted in Internet-of-Things (IoT) fashion to analog or digital devices is hosting a virtual event to talk about project ideas for battling Covid-19 with the Arduino platform. For example, building Arduino-based venti … | Continue reading
Vonage has announced new functionality for their Verify API that aims to streamline the authentication workflow for the company’s partners. These updates include new authentication workflows and events, as well as custom PIN capabilities for more granular control over the authen … | Continue reading
Apple scooped up a beloved mobile application with plans to fold it into its own offering. Dark Sky sells for $3.99 and is popular due to its hyper-local forecasts. It's important to point out that the app is popular not only with iPhone owners, but also with Android owners. | Continue reading
Farm Market ID announced a new, real-time API. The API gives third-party developers access to Farm Market ID's rich agribusiness data. The API brings farm-related data under one roof where developers can integrate the data as needed. This includes farm, farmer, crop, farm field, … | Continue reading
Twenty-one APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Coronavirus, Shipping, and Human Resources. Featured are twelve more APIs for COVID-19 data, an API for Food Truck locations, and an API for DroneDeploy drone mapping platform. Here's a look … | Continue reading
Google announced a COVID-19 Public Datasets program to help combat the spread of COVID-19. It gives researchers and educators free access to Google-hosted public datasets. Datasets come from institutions such as Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering, the World … | Continue reading
New York State has announced a new technology service partnership program that aims to accelerate the state’s technological response to COVID-19. The initiative is specifically encouraging partnerships with individuals that work in product management, software development, data … | Continue reading
Zoom has updated its iOS app to stop sending specific data to Facebook. Zoom's announcement came after Motherboard reported that data such as timezone, city, device details, etc. were sent to Facebook. This sharing came from Zoom's use of the Facebook SDK, which it will now stop. | Continue reading
Homes, cities, cars, businesses, and workplaces are getting smarter thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT). The Internet of Things category on ProgrammableWeb has over three hundred APIs. Here we highlight ten popular ones including the Google Assistant and Alexa Home Skills APIs … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Transportation, and Satellites. Highlights include an API for managing Google Ads, an API for building Misty Robotics robot skills, and an API for bespoke insurance from PSA Insuranc … | Continue reading
Apple has announced an extension of its deadline for developers to update their applications in accordance with the latest design guidelines. The new deadline is June 30, 2020. These new standards affect applications designed for the Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. | Continue reading
Over the past month, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the pandemic. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected more than 462,000 people across more than 199 countries. | Continue reading
A number of recent events has shown just how important it is for developers to guard against rogue SDKs in their mobile apps. In this article Alan Bavosa discusses the ways in which rogue SDKs can affect an app and the steps developers can take to protect their apps against them. | Continue reading
Organizations across the world have been joining forces to host global hackathons aimed at solving the myriad issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ProgrammableWeb has been tacking these competitions to provide developers with details on how to get involved. | Continue reading
February 2020 marked this sixth year of GitHub's Security Bug Bounty Program. It has been an overwhelming success for GitHub, its customers, and the researcher community. Despite its achievements, GitHub is continuing to invest in the program with new facets like the Security Lab … | Continue reading
Latest gaming-focused API meant to help reduce the time it takes to download and install games so end users can start gameplay faster while enjoying games with smaller footprints. The Google Play Asset Deliver API is flexible, has a small footprint, and is free for developers to … | Continue reading
Earlier this year IBM announced the annual Call for Code Challenge. The intention was that Call for Code participants would use technology to help fight climate change. This vision has been expanded to include a call for developers to create solutions aimed at solving the COVID- … | Continue reading
Spotify has launched a suite of Podcast APIs. Through the APIs, developers can create Podcast experiences specifically for Spotify listeners. The Podcast APIs add nine new endpoints to Spotify's host of developer APIs. For the moment, all of the new Podcast endpoints are in beta. | Continue reading
One significant challenge posed by digital transformation is the need for organizations to leverage existing technology investments, which often hold business and technical intellectual property built up over many years. The combination of integration and API is a powerful tool. | Continue reading