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Daily API RoundUp: Wealthbox, TokenAnalyst, CrimeoMeter, Bespoken, Wakup
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Healthcare, Cryptocurrency, and Restaurants. Highlights include an API for genotyping and an API for retrieving crime statistics and safety quality by location. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
10-05-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Splunk, Quarters, LambdaTest, Keepa, i18n
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Voice, Mapping and Storage. Highlights include an API for managing membership subscriptions and APIs for Lambdatest cross browser testing services. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
08-22-2019
Facebook Announces Marketing API Updates Aimed at Reducing Discrimination
In March of 2019, Facebook announced changes to the company’s advertising platform, these changes aim to reduce discrimination in job postings, housing ads, and credit ads. Developers will soon be required to comply with updated Marketing API standards based on these changes.
08-16-2019
LinkedIn Adds Audience Engagement API to LinkedIn Partner Program
LinkedIn added an Audience Engagement feature to its LinkedIn Partner Program. Audience Engagement allows users to discover audiences, receive content recommendations, and benchmark content against competitors. LinkedIn offers the feature through API integration with limited launch partners.
08-14-2019
Instagram's Weak Data Protection Causes More Privacy Problems for Facebook
Facebook has another data privacy scandal on its hands. This time, the problem comes from weak security practices from its Instagram app. A location-based marketing firm called Hyp3r has created a massive database of location and consumer profiling data that is largely scraped from Instagram posts.
08-08-2019
Amazon Personalize Now Generally Available
Roughly half a year after Amazon first announced API access to the machine learning technology that drives its own Amazon.com retail business, the AWS team has made Amazon Personalize generally available. In its first release, the API is open to AWS customers in the US, APAC, and EU.
06-11-2019
Bandwidth Enables Burst SMS Campaigns with Local Numbers
As many carriers begin to block burst SMS campaigns from short codes and toll free numbers, Bandwidth is empowering businesses with the ability to perform burst campaigns from local numbers. Using 10DLC SMS routes, Bandwidth has introduced its Local A2P API to build trust through local numbers.
03-12-2019
Google Adds TV Targeting to AdWords API
Google has added a new category of devices for targeting to the AdWords API. Connected TV allows developers to target devices connected to TVs for display and video ads. This applies to smart TVs, gaming consoles, and streaming devices such as Chromecast, Roku, and AppleTV.
01-07-2019
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2018: eCommerce, Marketing, and Social Media
This segment of the past year's APIs focuses on eCommerce, Marketing and Social Media. Sub categories covered here include Advertising, Content, Printing, Products, Catalogs, Subscription, Taxes, Feedback, Auctions, Shipping, Ratings, Personalization, SEO, Engagement and others.
12-28-2018
Algolia Personalizes Search Results
Algolia has added a personalization feature to its search results platform and API. Personalization collects data based on user behavior and allows the developer/owner to define how such data is used. The data and definition then empower Algolia to automatically produce relevant search results.
12-19-2018
Daily API RoundUp: Sonos, Arcentry, AI Mastering, Cisco Videoscape
Ten more APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Auto, and Marketing. Highlights include the Sonos API for home sound automation and the Arcentry API for architectural diagram creation. Here's a look at what is new for developers.
09-08-2018
Codeless App Events Added to Facebook SDK
Facebook has added Codeless App Events to the latest version of the Facebook SDK. The new feature allows app owners to track interactions between app users with certain elements within an app (e.g. buttons, images, etc.). Codeless App Events is implemented through a visual tool to reduce coding.
06-27-2018
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: Stratfor, World Trading Data, mod.io, WebsiteHosting.com, Edamam
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketing, Nutrition, and Games. Highlights include an API for integrating Stratfor Worldview service, provides intelligence, predictions, and news regarding global issues. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
05-19-2018
Daily API RoundUp: GitHub, WorldCup 2018, Google Street View
Twenty APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketing, Mapping, and Weather. Highlights include the GitHub Checks API, which gives developers to build solutions for continuous integration, linting and acceptance testing. Here's a look at what is new.
05-17-2018
Episerver Announced the Launch of Episerver Insight
Episerver recently announced the launch of Episerver Insight and a new Headless API to help organizations gain visitor intelligence. Episerver Insight allows marketers and merchandisers to track and visualize the digital behavior of both authenticated customers and anonymous visitors.
03-08-2018
ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Business and Productivity
This article is part of a multi-part series where we discuss interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Business APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.
12-25-2017
Salesforce Has Cracked The Code On Demystifying Machine Learning For Mortals (includes audio)
To laypeople, the high potential disciplines of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science are enigmas. Most people don't even know what these terms mean, let alone what to do about them. But, in its Einstein portfolio of AI offerings, Salesforce has cracked the code.
12-01-2017
Four Ways Developers Can Grow Users and Revenue
Developed app markets are increasingly saturated making it harder than ever to stand out. Localizing your app abroad - whether just a translation or a full app overhaul - could be the difference between its global success or failure. So what should you consider if you want to localize right now?
10-12-2017
ShopAdvisor API Version 3.0 Now Generally Available
ShopAdvisor has announced that version 3.0 of the ShopAdvisor API is now generally available. The API allows developers to build applications that can make online-to-offline retailer oriented queries which can then be used to provide information for mobile marketing campaigns.
08-21-2017