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Daily API RoundUp: Ziwo, MightyCall, Upscope, ProWritingAid
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Customer Service, Telephony, and Cryptocurrency. Highlights include an API for copy editing written text and an API for finding Dive site information. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
10-11-2019
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
Vonage Introduces Number Programmability for Business Cloud Platform
Vonage is bolstering its cloud communication suite with the APIs it purchased through its Nexmo acquisition. A new feature for its Vonage Business Cloud platform, called Number Programmability, leverages the Nexmo API suite to empower Vonage numbers with a host of new features.
03-21-2019
RingCentral Launches Embeddable Platform and Compliance APIs
RingCentral further integrated its communications features within enterprise systems. RingCentral Embeddable uses RingCentral's core voice and SMS features and allows access to such features within third party apps. The new e-Discovery and message retention APIs allows better compliance reporting.
03-14-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Fullscreen Direct, Modulr, VSee, ApusPayments
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Messaging, Payments, and Shipping. Highlights include an unofficial Google News API and an API for enabling applications to accept Bitcoin payments. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
10-23-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Reloadly, Kinow, Dronecode, Voicepods
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Mail, Application Development and Telephony. Highlights include SDKs and an API for Dronecode open source drone operation platform and an API for sending mail without going to the post office.
10-20-2018
HubSpot Introduces Beta Version of Calling API
HubSpot announced a beta for its Calling API. The API allows third party telephony providers to use their own calling features with HubSpot. Without this API, HubSpot partners needed to rely on HubSpot's native calling features. The beta is open to Sales Hub and Service Hub Enterprise Customers.
09-14-2018
Ericsson Releases Study: Exploring IoT Strategies
Ericsson has released a study that provides insights from a number of leading telecom service providers on how they are engaging and positioning themselves in the IoT market. Most of the service providers interviewed are relying on standards and open APIs to enable third-party development.
04-24-2018
Rev.io Launches a REST API for its Usage-Based Billing Platform
Rev.io, a provider of a usage-based billing platform for telecom and IoT companies, announced today a new REST API that gives the company's customers and partners the ability to programatically access usage-rating, metered billing, customer data, and inventory catalog information.
04-17-2018
Twilio Programmable Wireless Moves from Beta to General Availability
Twilio has moved Programmable Wireless out of beta and has made the product generally available (GA). The GA release of Twilio Programmable Wireless introduces updated data pricing, a Quote-based data pricing model, and improvements to the usage section of the Programmable Wireless Console.
04-17-2018
Twilio Launches Twilio Flex Fully Programmable Contact Center Platform
Twilio has launched Twilio Flex, a cloud-based contact center platform that is fully programmable and allows businesses to engage with customers via a variety of channels. Twilio Flex is currently in preview and the company plans on making the platform generally available by the end of 2018.
03-12-2018
Twilio Adds Support for RCS to its Communications Platform
Twilio has announced that support for RCS (Rich Communications Services) Business Messaging has been added to its communications platform. The company also announced the availability of Rich Messaging Extensions which enable native RCS capabilities supported by Twilio channels.
02-26-2018
Aria Solutions Announces API-Based Softphone Solution
Aria Solutions announced an API-based softphone solution that brings Salesforce CRM and Cisco telephony platforms together in a single solution. The Velocity Softphone is available on the Salesforce AppExchange and eliminates the need for agents to flip back and forth between various platforms.
01-09-2018
New Research: Telecom API Market Outlook and Forecasts
The telecom API market enjoyed significant growth over the last five years. That growth is expected to continue for the next five years, but the opportunities and technologies driving the growth moving forward are significantly different than those that have driven the market to its current state.
09-21-2017
Add Programmable Voice to Your Node.js Apps with Express
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Nexmo Application and Voice APIs to create a text-to-speech outbound phone call securely and then how to receive inbound calls by implementing a Webhook. This tutorial assumes you are working with a Unix or Linux-based operating system.
08-09-2017
Daily API RoundUp: BBVA Compass, Icons8, UpCall, RetinaLyze
Eighteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Healthcare, Blockchain, and Privacy. Highlights today include several BBVA Compass Banking APIs and an API for integrating technology that determines Diabetic Retinopathy. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
06-22-2017
In Other API Economy News: One API to Rule Your Home, Amazon's LightSail, Kotlin and More
Sometimes, there's more API economy news than there's time to cover it. But you deserve to know, right? So, here's another installation of ProgrammableWeb's "Briefly, In other API Economy News" so you see some of that other stuff that comes our way, but that might not otherwise get covered.
05-31-2017
Twilio Announces Proxy API and Suite of Declarative APIs
Twilio has introduced the Twilio Proxy API, a new API for building private text and voice conversations between customers and mobile workers. The company also announced the new Twilio Engagement Cloud, a suite of Declarative APIs with additional business process and logic built in.
05-25-2017
Twilio Introduces Add-on Management API
Twilio has introduced an Add-on Management API developers can use to programmatically install, configure, and enable Add-ons in apps. Developers can now add Twilio Add-on capabilities to applications that end users can easily enable without the need for manual configuration and email interactions.
05-23-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Twilio, Google Fit, Springer, Yext
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including email, Telephony, and Fitness. Highlights today include APIs for Google Fit fitness applications and an API for promoting efficient app energy usage. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
04-29-2017