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Threat Stream API Offers Security Through Real-Time Access to Actionable Intelligence
Threat Stream, SaaS-based cyber threat intelligence platform, offers its real-time stream of actionable intelligence to developers through the Threat Stream API. Threat Stream's big data security driven analytics creates an actionable, context rich stream of intelligence that meets the needs of government and enterprise security operations. Machine learning and sophisticated algorithms reduce false-positives and give users world class security capabilities.
10-08-2013
TaxCloud Partners with Stripe to Launch New API
FedTax's TaxCloud, the internet's only free sales tax service, now integrates with Stripe. Stripe will be TaxCloud's initial partner for TaxCloud.js, TaxCloud's new sales tax management API. Stripe merchants can now easily comply with any sales tax law in the US, regardless of state, with no extra charge to merchants.
10-07-2013
Mogreet Drops Pricing on SMS
Text and rich messaging company Mogreet dropped its pricing on SMS Wednesday, the company told ProgrammableWeb at API World. The company used to charge 1 cent for a text message, now it charges .75 cents for inbound or outbound messaging.
10-04-2013
Social Money Launches Private Beta Version of CorePro API
Social Money, an online goal savings platform provider, has announced the launch of the private beta version of the CorePro API which allows companies to integrate savings accounts into online and mobile applications. The CorePro Platform is the first product that Social Money has developed that offers an open API and was built using elements of the company's SmartyPig platform.
10-04-2013
Payvia Adds New Features To Bill-To-Carrier Mobile Payments Platform
When it comes to mobile payments, consumers are more likely to proceed to checkout when a transaction is smoother and doesn't require the inputting of lots of numbers. With that in mind, Payvia recently added two features to its bill-to-carrier mobile payments platform, available to merchants through an API. ProgrammableWeb spoke about those changes and more with company CTO Alek Zdziarski at API World.
10-04-2013
Runnable Launches “YouTube of Code” Service
With developers already sourcing code snippets to cut and paste into their dev projects, Runnable has launched to provide a “YouTube of code” social network. Runnable have calculated there are over 200 million code searches each month, as developers look to stand on the shoulders of giants – or at least each other – when creating quick, workable solutions to include in their projects.
10-03-2013
Yodlee Interactive Enhances API for Cross-Platform Apps and Increased Flexbility
Yodlee Interactive, financial data and transaction platform provider, has launched major enhancements to its API offering. Over 600 companies around the world already rely on Yodlee to fuel financial apps and services for millions of consumers. Yodlee Interactive’s API previously supported SOAP/XML and powered some of the most innovative financial apps around. However, an expanded support for REST, JSON, and HTML will enable simplified integration and cross-platform functionality.
10-03-2013
Display Your Content the Way You Want. Prismic.io Launches Platform Independent CMS
Drupal is a great tool for content management but what if you don’t want to get cornered into a Drupal design? What if you want to format your data in your own way?
Today at API World, Rudy Rigot and former Play Framework cofounder Sadek Drobi launched Prismo.io, a cloud-based content management service that lets you design your own.
10-02-2013
SOA Software Adds Orchestration to API Management Platform to Speed Up Mobile Development
SOA Software, a leading API management solutions provider, has just announced the addition of API Orchestration to the SOA Software API Management Platform. Earlier this year, SOA software launched two new API management solutions; API Management Solution for Microsoft and API Management Solution for IBM WebSphere DataPower.
10-02-2013
Postmaster Introduces Box and Bin Packing Feature, New Pricing Tiers
Postmaster, a technology company that specializes in small package logistics optimization, has just announced the addition of a new Box and Bin Packing feature to the Postmaster API. Earlier this year, Postmaster launched a beta version of the Postmaster API which helps businesses integrate and optimize the shipping process when using carriers Fedex, UPS, and USPS.
10-02-2013
Manage Subscriptions and Recurring Billing through the Pactas API
Pactas, recurring billing solution provider, offers the Pactas API that allows developers to include Pactas functionality within third party apps and websites. Any need for recurring billing (e.g. carsharing, music flatrates, cloud services, etc.) can be simplified and streamlined with the Pactas solution. Pactas enables users to manage subscriptions, track payments, and map pricing. Access to the platform can customize to each users' situation depending on need, resources, and integration opportunities.
10-01-2013
Social Foundry Adds REST Support to SOAPbox
Social Foundry, plug and play API infrastructure provider, has announced REST support for its SOAPbox API adaptor. SOAPbox exposes database operations through web services. This simplifies API creation, so software and app developers can concentrate on functionality, not manual coding methods.
10-01-2013
CanvasPop Photo Printing API: Create Canvas Prints and Monetize Your Images
CanvasPop’s new Photo Printing API has already won the hearts and minds of big name photo and image partners like 500px, East Coast pixels (creators of the Photo Toaster app) and Selfless Portraits. Now, any web or mobile developer can integrate the photo-to-canvas printing API into their service delivery and automate canvas printing direct to the end-customer.
10-01-2013
Open Kit 1.0 Enables Truly Social Games
In just 10 months after OpenFeint, a social platform for mobile games on Android and iOS discontinued the service, Open Kit has released version 1.0 of its Open Source alternative for game developers. Developers can now make use of their back-end services to create social cross-platform gaming features across iOS and Android, with Unity™ plug-in support.
09-30-2013
What Just Happened? Gnip’s New Twitter Search API Can Help You Find Out
Sometimes what is happening now is not as important as what happened then. I am speaking of the past and how it can help you piece events together. This what makes Gnip’s newest Twitter search API so powerful.
09-30-2013
Putting Together a Travel Package? Relax and Let the iZento API Do It for You
If you are a travel agent, you can spend a lot of time putting together a spiffy looking travel package for a customer or you can do it in under a minute with an API. iZento announced an API this week that takes travel booking data and transforms it into a professional itinerary complete with travel documents that travel agents can proudly hand over to their traveling customers.
09-30-2013
Cloudfier API Grants Access to Business Web App Functionality
Business applications created on the Cloudfier platform inherently contain an API that grants full access to app functionality through the Cloudfier API. Cloudfier allows users to define a business centric solution with Cloudfier’s business programming language. After the solution is defined, the platform automatically creates a web application. Cloudfier was built on Elipse Orion and aims to move towards a new type of development.
09-30-2013
Latest Google App Engine release makes Search API Available To All
The Google App Engine team is galloping forward with new releases and cool features. It has just been a few weeks since the release of App Engine 1.8.4 but the team has kept focus and come up with a new release that is focused on the Search API and enhancements to its PHP Runtime, that has received solid acceptance from the legion of PHP programmers worldwide.
09-27-2013
NYC Launches Redesigned Open Data Portal and New APIs
The New York City Government has raised the bar for open government programs everywhere by launching several brand new NYC Open Data APIs, a redesigned Open Data Portal and Developer Website. The NYC Open Data Portal now has over 1,100 datasets available including 200 brand new datasets that have just been added.
09-27-2013
Service Objects Launches API for Online Address Verification
Contact validation company Service Objects launched the latest in its array of online tools this week. The DOTS Address Validation-US3 API automatically verifies, corrects and appends address information to contact data records in real time.
09-27-2013