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Moonlighting Launches Moon API, an Open API for On-Demand Hiring
Moonlighting, a freelance hiring platform that first opened in 2014, recently announced the open release of the Moon API. The API allows staffing professionals and recruiters to post short and long-term projects on the company’s platform, reaching over 650,000 users.
11-05-2018
Stitch Avoids the End of API Economy as We Know It
Taking advantage of APIs is a quick and inexpensive technique for a business so long as those APIs are available and remain constant. Changes happen to APIs all the time and this is the story of Stitch, a company that found a way to succeed, despite the uncertainties inherent to the API economy.
10-26-2018
How APIs Can Drive The Adoption of Meaningful Business Analytics
As enterprises embrace digital business models, they are evolving toward becoming data-driven organizations and harnessing analytics. This article explores the challenges of using traditional analytics approaches, how API management can address these challenges, and mine valuable data for analytics.
10-18-2018
Twilio Announces Acquisition of SendGrid
Twilio has announced that it will acquire SendGrid in an all-stock deal that totals $2 billion, the company’s largest acquisition to date. Twilio is well-known in the developer community for their API offerings. With the addition of SendGrid’s services, Twilio gains an already robust email service.
10-17-2018
Google Expands G Suite Delegate Settings via Gmail API
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 October 16, 2019.
10-03-2018
Integrate Trade Service Industry Business Management Software with simPRO API
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 available globally.
09-21-2018
Riding the Wave of Digital Disruption: 5 Tips to Help Legacy Businesses Operate Like Startups
Many startups are digital natives, meaning they don't have to deal with issues arising from legacy systems as enterprises often have to. Here are five key enablers to help established companies overcome disadvantages they may face compared to digital natives and stay competitive in the long run.
09-05-2018
Google Unveils Google My Business API v4.2
Google has announced the release of the Google My Business API version 4.2 containing new endpoints that will let third-party partners create end-to-end onboarding experiences for their merchants on their own platforms. Google My Business offers merchants the ability to create business listings.
08-30-2018
Oracle Unveils GraphPipe, a New Standard for Machine Learning Model Serving
Oracle today unveiled GraphPipe, an open-source standard that aims to simplify machine learning model serving. GraphPipe itself is a high-performance protocol for transmitting machine learning data between remote processes that Oracle developed to address machine learning model challenges.
08-15-2018
Facebook Introduces WhatsApp Business API
Last year, Facebook announced that it would launch a set of business-centric tools around WhatsApp. The company has also long stated that it would eventually monetize its various messaging platforms. Facebook has taken a step towards both goals with the introduction of the WhatsApp Business API.
08-02-2018
Security Researchers Discover a Secret Microsoft Office 365 Activities API
Security researchers have discovered a secret API in Microsoft Office 365 that gives investigators access to detailed information about activities that take place within Office 365. It makes available information about attachment, read and search activities, along with a variety of metadata.
07-02-2018
Help Scout Launches v2 of Its Mailbox API
Help Scout, a help desk platform provider, has announced the launch of version 2 of its Mailbox API. The Help Scout Mailbox API 2.0 implements OAuth2 for more user-friendly authentication with the services Help Scout customers are integrated with and contains a number of improvements.
06-08-2018
Rebel Launches Lite Version of Email Marketing API
Rebel is known for its interactive emails. But, developers had asked for Rebel to launch an API that allowed them to build emails with JSON (same process as Rebel Actionable API) without the need for interactive functionality. In response, Rebel has launched the Rebel Lite API.
06-04-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Marvel, Xink, FluidDATA, Home Connect
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including VoIP, Background, and Home Automation. Featured today is an API for searching for specific phrases within podcasts, an API for credit score verification, and one for integrating with branded email signatures.
05-26-2018
How Postman Solves Four Major Concerns of the Enterprise
Enterprise software companies display wide variety in their needs and behaviors but fundamentally they are concerned with security, administration and control, cost-effectiveness and visibility. While the problems are not unique to APIs, the solutions used by modern enterprises include them.
05-07-2018
Daily API RoundUp: AWS X-Ray, SparkPost, ViewNeo, Workzone
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Cryptocurrency, Payments, and Project Management. Highlights include a low latency, high performance email service from SparkPost to its European customers, and AWS X-Ray SDKS. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
04-07-2018
SparkPost Launches GDPR Compliant Email API
SparkPost announced a version of its SparkPost API that is fully compliant with the upcoming GDPR in the EU. SparkPost EU is hosted in Europe as opposed the the US where the original API is hosted. The EU version brings compliancy as well as lower latency and increased performance to EU customers.
04-05-2018
Mimecast Launches New API Developer Portal
Email and data security firm Mimecast Limited has officially launched an API and developer portal. Using the Mimecast API, Mimecast customers can programmatically configure and manage their Mimecast services, download gateway and security log file data and track email messages.
04-04-2018
Salesforce to Acquire MuleSoft in Deal Valued at $6.5B
In a post market-closing announcement yesterday March 20, 2018, MuleSoft and Salesforce jointly announced Salesforce’s intent to acquire MuleSoft in a deal worth approximately $6.5 billion. The announcement comes almost exactly one year after MuleSoft went public on the New York Stock Exchange.
03-21-2018
Google's Apps Script for G Suite Adds API
Google today gave G Suite developers three new tools to put to use in their Apps Script projects. The updates include a new script dashboard, a new API, and a new command line interface. Here's the skinny on Google's latest offerings for enterprise and business G Suite developers.
01-12-2018