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Google Fit Developer Challenge Promotes Healthy Competition
Google has announced a developer challenge in hopes of promoting the creation of Google Fit applications. Submissions are being accepted until February 15, 2015.
11-19-2014
Ziftr Provides Cryptocurrency API Implementation Advice
Chris Dunleavy, strategist for Ziftr, talks about the growing number of companies that are building cryptocurrency-enabled products and APIs to support retail applications.
10-23-2014
Slice Aims to Deliver a Uniquely Powerful Shopping Data Set
Slice, a company focused on shopping data, has just released an API that delivers its unique data set to partners.
09-12-2014
Versal's Developer Platform Could Launch a Stealth Education Revolution
Online learning company Versal has launched an open developer program that aims to help developers build "learning gadgets" that enable teachers to build online courses.
09-04-2014
Interview: MediaMath Opens Access to the Facebook Exchange API
MediaMath opened up access to an exclusive Facebook API. We interviewed Wilfried Schobeiri, MediaMath's senior VP of technology, to get additional details on the big news.
08-28-2014
Inbox Launches Revolutionary Email Platform
To learn more about email platform company Inbox, which this week announced its new developer API and cloud service for building email apps, ProgrammableWeb caught up with co-founder and CEO Michael Grinich.
07-09-2014
Keen IO Helps Developers Solve Custom Analytics Needs
Keen IO is working to enable analytics easily for all APIs. The company provides analytics and data science features for mobile apps and web dashboards. By providing the basic infrastructure, analytics for APIs is made easier. In an interview with Dan Kador, co-founder and CTO of Keen IO, he shares his vision and plan for a more analytically layered programmable web.
06-09-2014
Heroku Announces Support for the New PHP
Today, Heroku makes a huge announcement around its support for PHP. PHP is currently one of the most popular languages driving the web. Although PHP drives the likes of some of the webs giants (e.g. Facebook, Etsy, etc.), PHP has traditionally lacked some qualities (e.g. runtime, management, infrastructure elements) that peers like Ruby on Rails, Python with Django, and Node have delivered for quite some time. On April 30, at Facebook's F8, a new PHP is announced with full Heroku support. On the evening of the announcement, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Heroku's Adam Gross.
05-01-2014
SmartBear Launches SoapUI 5.0
Today, SmartBear announced the general availability of SoapUI 5.0. SoapUI was specifically designed to tame the growing number of undocumented REST APIs on the market today. In preparation for the launch, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Matti Hjelm, SmartBear's SoapUI Product Owner, to learn more.
04-09-2014
Google Now Supports Shopping Campaigns with AdWords API
Google recently announced Shopping Campaign support via the AdWords API. To better understand the new offering, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Eric Tholomé, Google Product Management Director.
03-25-2014
3SCALE Launches AWS API Proxy
3SCALE recently announced the launch of the 3SCALE AWS API Proxy. The new offering allows anyone to setup an API management proxy on Amazon's AWS infrastructure. To learn more about the new API proxy, ProgrammableWeb caught up with 3SCALE CEO, Steve Willmott.
03-24-2014
Gargl Offers Open Source Scraping Solution for Unofficial API Creation
While the number of APIs grows by leaps and bounds every year, only a fraction of websites offer official APIs. Not willing to wait, those who want and need data are increasingly taking matters into their own hands through the creation of unofficial APIs. A new tool, Gargl, gives individuals an open-source option for doing just that.
03-07-2014
Cloudinary Announces Multiple Add-On Partnerships
ProgrammableWeb initially covered Cloudinary in 2012 as it was a burgeoning startup in the quickly growing cloud community. Today, Cloudinary announced a host of new image related add-ons that should help Cloudinary expand its offering and user base. Prior to the announcement, we caught up with Cloudinary CEO, Itai Lahan, to learn more.
03-05-2014
built.io Is Building an Enterprise MBaas Platform for IoT
With a leadership team that has worked with enterprise customers in the past, raw engineering's new built.io believes that it is well-positioned to take on the burgeoning enterprise MBaaS market. COO Matthew Baier and CTO and Founder Nishant Patel told ProgrammableWeb why interest in the built.io API was so high amongst attendees at the recent DeveloperWeek conference.
03-03-2014
Nexmo Launches Voice APIs
Cloud-based communications provider Nexmo has launched a new set of cloud-based voice services.
02-28-2014
FoodEssentials Enhances LabelAPI
ProgrammableWeb initially covered FoodEssentials in 2012 when its LabelAPI matched around 75% of scanned product labels from developer partners. Since then, its database has grown to include the lion's share of all products sold in the U.S. market. As FoodEssentials gets ready for another SXSW, ProgrammableWeb caught up with FoodEssentials’ Tyler Olsen to learn more about LabelAPI’s success, growth and future.
02-21-2014
Kaazing Continues its Revolution in the Web-Connected World
Kaazing, software-based web communications platform, continues to attract big name customers as its key product enables realtime communication at unprecedented scale. As announced today, Vikram Mehta has taken the reigns as Kaazing's new CEO. ProgrammableWebcaught up with Mehta as he prepares to build on Kaazing's success and take the company to the next level.
02-18-2014
The Small Business Web Hosts Annual Summit this Week
On February 20-21, The Small Business Web will host its annual Summit in San Jose, Calif. Registration is open and PW readers can receive a $50 discount by entering "PWEB" as the discount code. To learn more about the event, its history and what's in store for 2014, PW caught up with The Small Business Web Founder and Olark's Chief Marketing Olarker, Sunir Shah. Shah provided us a brief history of the event.
02-17-2014
Orchestrate Solves Database Woes with Single API
This week, Orchestrate launched an API to allow management of multiple databases via a single API and interface. Cofounder and CEO of Orchestrate Antony Falco spoke with ProgrammableWeb about the growth of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) and why Orchestrate is a game changer for both app developers and the enterprise.
02-07-2014
W3C Launches a Draft NFC API
At the end of last month, W3C published a draft NFC API. As a leading authority on developing Web standards, I found it interesting that W3C had dedicated time and resources to NFC technology. NFC certainly received significant hype when it first showed up in consumer devices; however, since its initial 15 minutes of fame, many have questioned the viability, need, and long-term possibilities of NFC as a mainstream technology. Accordingly, I reached out to the W3C Team Contact for the NFC Working Group, Dave Raggett.
02-06-2014