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Dynadot Increases Domain Name Registrations With the Help of NameStudio API
Dynadot, an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar knows it's important for customers to find domain names that are right for them. That’s why they use Verisign’s NameStudio API, a domain name suggestion solution that returns relevant domain names in 13 languages and across a wide range of TLDs.
12-02-2019
Directnic Boosts Its Bottom Line With NameStudio API
Directnic, an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar, needed a solution to reduce domain name search abandonment that could be easily integrated into the company’s domain name search platform. It chose Verisign’s NameStudio API, a smart domain name suggestion solution that helps drive registrations.
11-18-2019
How Email Verification Tools Can Help Grow Your Market
Email is probably one of the most important channels explored by marketing managers. Done right, email marketing can have an ROI of 3400%. Bad email lists keep many companies from seeing these results. This article looks at how email verification tools can help companies achieve desired results.
11-14-2019
What Happens When Data Quality Goes Wrong And How to Fix It
Corporate decisions are always driven by data and it determines a company’s long-term success. The quality of data a company can access determines their customer experiences, analytics, insights, retention, and revenue. This article looks at ways a company can improve its data quality.
11-12-2019
Introduction to serpstack's Free, Real-Time Google Search Results API
In this article, we offer an introduction and tutorial on serpstack, a free, real-time Google search results API used to monitor brand performance on search engine results pages around the world. serpstack is a vital SEO tool to research and understand search engine performance.
11-07-2019
How to Innovate P&C Insurance With a Real Estate Data API
In the connected P&C insurance ecosystem, a property data API has become a critical enabler for businesses committed to staying ahead of the competition by modernizing workflows and offering innovative customer-centric services that have a direct positive impact on the bottom line.
10-22-2019
Introduction to scrapestack's Real-time, Scalable Proxy & Web Scraping REST API
There are many reasons to scrape the web including identifying breaking news, aggregating content, data collection for machine learning, and more. This article presents an introduction and tutorial to scarepstack, a powerful, real-time web scraping API service used by more than 2,000 companies.
10-21-2019
How the TomTom Maps SDK for Web Helps You Build Location-sharing and Incident-based Maps
This article looks at some potential use cases of different objects presented in the documentation for the TomTom Maps SDK for Web. We’ll go through uses of classes GeolocateControl, Evented, and IncidentMarker, and how these might be helpful to be aware of as you start interacting with TomTom Maps.
10-18-2019
Introduction to weatherstack's Real-Time & Historical World Weather API
If you require accurate real-time world weather data for your application, the weatherstack is worth considering. The weatherstack API provides historical weather data back to 2008 and measurement units for metric, scientific or English. This article provides an introduction to the API.
10-07-2019
RouteSavvy.com's Top 6 Tips For Choosing a Routing API
For developers planning to incorporate route optimization in applications, it's helpful to know how to choose a routing API. Here the RouteSavvy team offers the top six tips for choosing a routing API and a case study of how the RouteSavvy API was integrated into a floral delivery software system.
09-27-2019
Telesign's APIs Go Beyond Typical CPaaS Offerings, Covering Customer 360, Security, and More
Are all CPaaSes (Communications Platform as a Service) created alike? Telesign's director of product management Vince Oh thinks not. In this interview with ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind, Oh explains how Telesign's parent company gives it a unique competitive advantage.
08-23-2019
How to Create Better APIs with Automation
While engineers build APIs to enable automation, they don’t always get the same benefits themselves during API development. In this article we will address the common problems with API development below and show how automation can help enterprises create better, faster, and more reliable APIs.
08-20-2019
How a Design-based Approach to API Development Promises Better Connected Software
When developing APIs, upfront planning can save a lot of unneeeded coding. A design-based approach to building APIs can save you and your API consumers additional development cycles. There are three key elements at the heart of a great API design process: the API schema, collaboration, and testing.
07-11-2019
What Are the Best DevOps Practices for Enterprise API Builders?
DevOps is not just a technical process, but also an approach to help your team build better software. In this post, we'll cover four important DevOps practices. Using a tool like Postman, you can ensure each of these practices is easily communicated to the rest of your team.
06-11-2019
How APIs Can Standardize Information Storage in the Cloud
Cloud-based storage has opened up new possibilities for managing and analyzing data. However, not all information stored in the cloud is as easily accessible as it could be. This article looks at the different types of APIs that let you sync to the cloud and have a safe way to access your files.
06-06-2019
What Makes the bunq API Today’s Best European Open Banking API
Screen scraping has bridged the connection gap between banks and fintech for decades, but banks are now starting to deprecate it because of PSD2. bunq has managed to build a growing community around its open API since 2017, and it serves as an example for other European banks striving to innovate.
06-03-2019
How Accusoft's API Adds Workflow To Existing Doc Management Systems
Through its API-driven PrizmDoc Suite, Accusoft offers a collection of document workflow capabilities that can extend the shared document storage and retrieval functions of today's document management solutions. ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind interviewed Accusoft's Steve Wilson to find out more.
05-28-2019
How IPinfo's Customer Focus Drives Developer Loyalty To Its APIs
According to Ben Dowling, founder of IPInfo, an API provider specializing in IP-based geolocation, the key to success is staying customer-driven. Of course, when your organization is an API provider like IPinfo is, "customer-driven" is synonymous with "developer-driven." Dowling explains.
05-17-2019
How to Reduce the Cost of an API Outage on Your Mobile App
This article examines why APIs have outages, what the cost of such outages can be and therefore the importance for you, as a mobile app developer, to monitor all of the API Endpoints your app depends on to function, in order to reduce the cost of an API outage on your mobile app.
05-13-2019
Are APIs the Best Way to Share Files?
APIs are some of the best ways to get access to data and to share files—large and small—back and forth between users. But are they the only option out there for businesses to utilize? Depending on what your company does—and what it needs its data for—there are other options instead of APIs.
04-29-2019