Amazon Personalize Delivers API Access to the AI that Powers Amazon.com

Amazon has spent over 20 years building AI that has made it become the most dominant retailer in history. Now, Amazon is bringing that AI to third parties through an API. Amazon Personalize allows contextual personalization and recommendations through the AWS SDK or the AWS conso … | Continue reading


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Is the API in Your App a Trojan Horse?

Attackers know that API calls originating from inside an app are a blueprint for the infrastructure inside your data center. Further, they can use those same API calls to hide their malicious purposes, like a Trojan horse ready to slip through the front door. Apps are the new eme … | Continue reading


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CARDFREE Opens API access to its Order-Ahead Platform

CARDFREE has opened its order-ahead API for third party integration. Third parties can include order-ahead and payment processing in their existing apps that include support for complex menus, upselling/cross-selling, combinations and much more. The API works seamless on mobile a … | Continue reading


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Kyber Introduces API Access to On-Chain Liquidity Protocol

Kyber created an on-chain liquidity protocol so that any app can exchange value through decentralized tokens using cryptocurrencies of choice. Now, Kyber is providing API access to this protocol so that developers without smart contract experience can leverage the on-chain liquid … | Continue reading


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Open APIs – The Need for Common Standards in Banking

The ripple effects of regulation such as the EU's PSD2 and Open Banking initiatives in the UK and APAC, designed to stimulate increased competition in banking, are being felt worldwide. But what do these changes mean in practice for developers seeking to build fintech apps to wor … | Continue reading


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Apple Kicks Off Effort to Support Women Entrepreneurs

Apple has made a new commitment to women leaders. The company this week announced Entrepreneur Camp, a technology lab meant to assist women app developers and women founders and co-founders. If your female-led company or development team has a working prototype, Apple may have a … | Continue reading


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USPS API Vulnerability Exposed 60 Million Users’ Account Details

​The United States Postal Service confirmed recently that they have patched an API issue which exposed the account details for up to 60 million users. Additionally, in some cases, the vulnerability could have allowed hackers to modify other users’ account details. | Continue reading


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Datadog Introduces Synthetics API Performance Monitoring Tool

Datadog has expanded its platform to include API and endpoint performance monitoring. The new service, Synthetics, sends simulated API requests to the monitored API and returns data to the administrator. The data gives an idea of what an API user witnesses when consuming a partic … | Continue reading


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Amazon Opens Alexa to Bluetooth Device Makers

This week Amazon announced the general availability of the Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit. The SDK was designed to bring Alexa to Bluetooth devices including headphones, headsets and wearables. Alexa capabilities and any of thousands of Alexa Skills are available for integration into … | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: geoPlugin, Cerise, Taxicode, Neobi

Five APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories Currency, Transportation, and Location. Highlights include an API for cannabis data retrieval and an API for locating application users down to the geocoordinates. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading


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Air France-KLM Cargo Launches API for Freight Booking

Franco-Dutch airline carrier Air France-KLM recently unveiled a new API that will power an online freight-booking tool. The API is the latest result of a three-year process to modernize the carriers’ legacy system, some of which date back to the 1980s. Related: How the USDS is | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: Kaleido, BlockMarkets, Amplifier, Implisense, BetterTaxi

Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchain, Printing, B2B, and Transportation. Highlights include the BlockMarkets API which retrieves data about current and historical cryptocurrency. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading


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Google Adds Quick, Draw! API

In 2016 Google released Quick, Draw!, a digital version of pictionary that uses machine learning to guess what users are drawing in their browser. Google is now providing the entire data set behind this algorithm as an open source API, allowing developers to research the way peop … | Continue reading


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Cashplus Adds Payments API to Portfolio

Cashplus continues to add to its Fintech API suite. Most recently, the company released its Payments API. The API enables small and medium sized business to initiate, approve, reject and submit payments from third party applications. The API can process thousands of transactions … | Continue reading


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Five Reasons Microservices Don’t Always Work for Your Application

Microservices, an approach where software can be broken into small, distinct components offers many advantages over monolithic architectures. But, they are not a catch all solution for your application. This article looks at when moving to a microservice approach may not be in yo … | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: Qboxmail, Aeon, Pine, Cinchy, Bitvore

Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Email, and Marketing. Highlights include some APIs for Capital One, an API for the Pine feed reader, and the ORY Oathkeeper API for authentication. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading


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BlockMarkets Launches API for Real-Time Cryptocurrency Market Data

BlockMarkets, provider of cryptocurrency market data, has announced a new API that will provide access to both real-time and historical cryptocurrency pricing. The company’s data set features over 500 assets in total, including leading cryptocurrencies, exchanges, and real-time U … | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: Voltaire, CloudReq, Blend, TokenD, Squarelink

Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Payments and Crowdsourcing. Highlights include an API that returns localized information such as city, currency, language and Risk Assessment Data. Here's a rundown of the lat … | Continue reading


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Microsoft Introduces Azure Blockchain Development Kit

Microsoft has released a development kit for blockchain. The initial release extends the features of its Azure Blockchain Workbench and blockchain developer templates. It focuses on connecting interfaces, integrating data and systems, and deploying smart contracts and blockchain … | Continue reading


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ZeroBounce Announces New API for Bulk Email Validation

ZeroBounce, provider of email verification services, has announced the addition of a new API for bulk email validation. The new API is designed for users with frequent email validation needs, that would prefer to automate the entire process. | Continue reading


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Tisane Labs Introduces API to Detect Abusive Text Content

Tisane Labs has introduced an API to detect and classify abusive text content. The AI-powered service identifies such speech across 27 languages. Not only can the service pinpoint specific words, it can classify the type of abusive content for labeling, moderation, and prevention … | Continue reading


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Zype Announces News Video Analytics APIs

Zype has announced the release of video analytics APIs that allow users to create custom views around video stream hours, impressions, and devices used. The APIs aim to further the company’s vision of connecting content owners directly with their audiences. | Continue reading


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Bitvore Precision News API Now Generally Available

Bitvore's Precision News artificial intelligence technology can scour unstructured data across news sources throughout the world. It can deliver information on material changes and metrics that analysts can use in decision making. Now, the AI can be integrated with third party ap … | Continue reading


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Google Aims to Increase Interoperability of Web and Native Apps with Writable Files API

Google's capabilities project looks to increase the interoperability of web and native apps. Typical local capabilities like file system access and idle detection are expected at the local level, but don't translate well to web. The Writable Files API is one aspect of the project … | Continue reading


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Google Announces Android Support for Foldable Devices

Foldable phones are coming back. But, they won't be like the limited feature phones of the early 2000s. The new foldable phones will come with a robust set of smartphone features, and Google is preparing to make the foldable phone experience more robust than the current single sc … | Continue reading


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Voltaire Announces New API to Open Access to Bitcoin Cash Market

Voltaire, an electronic cash exchange built for Bitcoin Cash has launched their first developer API. The API allows developer and traders alike to make programmatic calls to Voltaire’s Bitcoin/Bitcoin Cash market. Voltaire plans to open the API to more markets such as Ethereum, G … | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: Google Sheets, ConfigCat, Ask Kodiak, Dispatch Labs

Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Cryptocurrency and Spreadsheets. Featured today is an API for Insurance brokers to fetch data about policies and customers, and an API for sonar imaging. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading


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How APIs Have Opened Trading from Big Brokerages to Individual Traders

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Google Adds New AI Features to Cloud Video API

​Google recently announced the beta release of three new AI features for the Google Cloud Video Intelligence API. With the addition of Text Detection, Object Tracking, and Speech Transcription, the API is now more capable of handling common video challenges. | Continue reading


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GraphQL Moving to Neutral, Open-Source Foundation

GraphQL is moving to a vendor neutral, open source foundation. The GraphQL Foundation will be hosted by Linux Foundation, and the project will be run under an open governance model. The transition from Facebook to the foundation is ongoing, but a preliminary list of founding memb … | Continue reading


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Mapillary Open Sources Street-Level Image SDK

Mapillary has launched an open-source SDK for its street-level image platform. The SDK allows users to process and upload images to the platform. The more images uploaded, the more up to date and more robust maps become within third party apps. Currently, over 390 million images … | Continue reading


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Squarelink Access Tool for Blockchain Apps and API have Launched

Squarelink, an access tool for blockchain apps and services, has launched along with its public REST API. The API lets blockchain applications to retrieve transactions, data, and user account information upon permission by the user. The startup also plans on releasing open source … | Continue reading


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Samsung Hopes Opening Up Bixby to Developers Makes It Relevant

Playing a game of catch-up, Samsung said developers will soon be able to integrate their apps into Bixby, the company's personal assistant. Since launch, Bixby has failed to gain traction with users and it is far behind Amazon's Alexa, Google's Assistant, and even Apple's Siri. W … | Continue reading


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Android Dev Summit Brings In-App Updates, Android Studio 3.3 Beta

Today, Google is hosting the annual Android Dev Summit and has announced a set of new features and upgrades aimed at increasing developer productivity and user engagement. The updates include a new In-App Updates API that allows applications to update in the background while bein … | Continue reading


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Apollo Launches its GraphQL Platform

Apollo is a premier name in GraphQL. The company has launched what it's calling its "flagship product." The Apollo GraphQL Platform serves as a marketplace of data and data services within organizations that leverage GraphQL. Apollo's tagline for the product says it all: "Do Grap … | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: Sensorlab, Notarize, Rocketium, Airship

Eight APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, Real Estate, Electronic Signature, and CRM. Featured today are APIs from Sensorlab for retrieving sensor data such as motion and ambient light changes. Here's a rundown of the … | Continue reading


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Intuit Teases Online v4 API, Discusses Developer Strategy at QuickBooks Connect

At Intuit’s annual conference, QuickBooks Connect, some details were shared about the latest version of their QuickBooks Online API, currently open to partners. Included was a look at the Payroll functionality, long desired by Intuit’s developer community, and notes on the move t … | Continue reading


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Data61 Publishes Working Draft of Standard for Australia's Consumer Data Right

Australia introduced a Consumer Data Right roughly a year ago. While the government plans to enforce the right in the banking sector first, no legislation has yet compelled implementation. Nevertheless, Data61 published a working draft standard for the core standard principles an … | Continue reading


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Moonlighting Launches Moon API, an Open API for On-Demand Hiring

Moonlighting, a freelance hiring platform that first opened in 2014, recently announced the open release of the Moon API. The API allows staffing professionals and recruiters to post short and long-term projects on the company’s platform, reaching over 650,000 users. | Continue reading


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Add Calendar Reminders to Alexa Skills with the Reminders API

Amazon just made setting reminders with Alexa a lot easier. The Reminders API allows developers to include reminders within a particular skill in three simple steps. Prior to the Reminders API, customers needed to remember to create the right skill at the right time to get a spec … | Continue reading


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KeyedIn Launches API for Sharing of Project and Portfolio Data

KeyedIn today announced a new API Version 3 that makes it easier for its customers to share or extract project and portfolio data with other business software solutions for a more complete view of their businesses in real time. | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: Firebase, PagerDuty, ReadGeek, API-NBA, KeyedIn

Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Books, Sports and Billing. Highlights include Google's Firebase Management API and the Caselaw Access Project API which provides free access to millions of law books. Here's a look at what is n … | Continue reading


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Pusher's Chatkit Now Generally Available

After a year of beta testing its in-app messaging platform, Pusher has released Chatkit to general availability. Chatkit includes a set of APIs that comes loaded with a number of features that users have come to expect from any mainstream chat service (typing indicators, file sha … | Continue reading


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The Blockchain Train Is Leaving The Station. Should You Be On board?

Few trends exemplify the idea of FOMO the way blockchain trends do. But should you invest your time or money into it? This article offers some ways that you can get started with blockchain so that you can be aware of a rapidly growing and evolving market and make the best decisio … | Continue reading


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Amazon Music Skill API Lets Music Providers Bring Their Tunes to Alexa

Amazon has made its Music Skill API generally available in the Alexa Skills Kit. This API is meant for music service providers, such as Spotify or Pandora, and allows them to add their music service to Alexa-powered devices. Once connected, subscribers will be able to ask for the … | Continue reading


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How to Make a Heatmap with Mapbox GL JS

This tutorial will show you how to make a heatmap using Mapbox GL JS. Heatmaps can be used to display a large amounts of points in a visually engaging way for your audience. Here we refer to heatmaps as a visualization that is useful for showing the density of points over an area … | Continue reading


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Daily API RoundUp: The Met Collection, CleverPush, SignRequest, MINDBODY

Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Health, Cloud, and Real Estate. Featured today is an API for adding e-signature functions to applications, and The Met Collection API for access to high resolution art images. Here's a look at wha … | Continue reading


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Google Introduces its Latest Bot-Detecting API: reCAPTCHA v3

Google has evolved its bot-detecting reCAPTCHA API again. reCAPTCHA v3 goes beyond distorted text and identifying signals. v3 monitors a site user's interaction with a site and provides a score to the site owner/developer. The developer can use the risk score to evaluate needed a … | Continue reading


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