Adobe has announced the integration of Magento Commerce Cloud with Adobe Experience Cloud and the company has released Magento version 2.3. The latest version of Magento includes new Bulk APIs, Asynchronous APIs, and a new GraphQL implementation. | Continue reading
A look at the cryptocurrency market, with all its hype, failed ICOs, and questionable players, reveals an ecosystem comparable to that of the miners in the 1800s. In such an ecosystem, will a market for businesses providing tools and services (such as APIs) to the blockchain worl … | Continue reading
Facebook discovered a security attack that potentially compromised 50 million user accounts in late September. While Facebook has now reported that the actual affect was minimal, the company has released a tool that helps app developers understand whether their users were affecte … | Continue reading
Last week, cloud based printing company Cloudprinter.com launched the CloudPublish API. The API offers publishers a print on demand service that lets publishing apps be connected to hundreds of print partners. This allows content to be printed not only locally but around the worl … | Continue reading
What happens when you are ready to take your API from a small subset of users to something more open? What are the things you want to make sure are locked down tight before rolling out an open API program? James Higginbotham offered some tips for making sure your API is ready. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Printing, and Bots. Highlights include an API for temporary email and an API for IOTA Distributed Ledger Technology of the Internet of Things. Here's a rundown of the latest additio … | Continue reading
Facebook just announced the upcoming beta release of PyTorch 1.0. The AI framework fuses the research oriented capabilities of PyTorch with the production and scaling functionality of Caffe2 and ONNX. Facebook has already implemented PyTorch 1.0 to power many of its AI products. | Continue reading
BlackVue has released an API for cloud access to its in-vehicle dashcams. The API is targeted to GPS and fleet management solution providers. Potential use cases include monitoring, safety alerts, and fleet protection. The API follows behind the first fleet-targeted product, the … | Continue reading
Earlier this week GitLab announced the release of security updates aimed at fixing various flaws found in previous iterations. One issue was an insecure direct object reference that exposed confidential issues within all public projects, via the Events API. | Continue reading
Samsung wants developers to put its S Pen stylus for the Galaxy Note9 to work. The company recently released an SDK that gives developers access to the S Pen, allowing them to remotely trigger actions and controls with their apps via the stylus. This may let your app stand out. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Blockchian, Location, and Project Management. Highlights include APIs for Telestream streaming video platform and Skyhook location intelligence solutions. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
The newest SOAtest release aims to improve the test creation process by enabling users to leverage their organizations' existing test inventories and train SOAtest's artificial intelligence engine using machine learning, so it can create API test templates automatically. | Continue reading
Google announced that it is changing the way that delegate settings are managed within G Suite. The Gmail API is being expanded to handle these settings, and the Email Settings API, which had previously been used for controlling delegate relationships, will be deprecated as of Oc … | Continue reading
Atlassian has updated the Confluence and Jira Cloud APIs to comply with Europe's GDPR privacy regulations. The company will officially retire older APIs towards the end of March 2019. For now, the Bitbucket Cloud API has not been updated but the company will make GDPR-related cha … | Continue reading
Just as online trading expanded the options available to traders, a similar industry shift has been playing out over the past few years as algorithmic trading has become more accessible. This article looks at FXCM's platform including its API that helps traders get started with a … | Continue reading
Late last week Facebook announced updates to its Messenger Platform, which include the ability to give bots different personas, a customer chat plugin for WordPress, and removal of template restrictions on Tagged Messages. | Continue reading
Last week Google announced updates to both ARCore, as well as Sceneform, a 3D rendering library that can be used to create 3d scenes in AR and non-AR applications alike. Sceneform gains the ability to load gITF models at runtime, while ARCore sees the addition of point cloud IDs. | Continue reading
GraphQL has come a long way since Facebook first announced this open-sourced spec in 2015 with a number of Fortune 500 companies now employing the technology. To smooth out your implementation of the GraphQL backend at your company, here are five things you need to keep in mind. | Continue reading
IBM has announced the release of its GraphQL Wrapper for REST APIs. OASGraph can create a GraphQL interface from any OpenAPI Specification. With specific attention to authentication, API sanitation, and nested interfaces, IBM believes that OASGraph is the next big leap forward fo … | Continue reading
Avalara announced a new onboarding API for Avalara MyLodgeTax, the a tax compliance solution for the lodging industry. The API allows rental homeowners to transfer their property information from participating vacation rental platforms into Avalara MyLodgeTax’s lodging tax compli … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Images, Messaging, and Analytics. Featured APIs today include the Sakari API for bulk messaging, the Companies House for UK company data, and the StickerPop API for app stickers. Here's a look at … | Continue reading
After ongoing requests from the developer community, Prismic has launched an Alpha version of its GraphQL API. Developers interested should request access from the company, and their repo should be activated within three days of the request. Prismic expects bugs and much feedback … | Continue reading
Ripple provides blockchain payment technologies for banks, giving them more reliability, cost efficiency, and speed (transaction completion and recognition) that are infamous challenges within the banking industry. Its solutions enable banks to handle inter-bank transactions, liq … | Continue reading
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