Productivity APIs from Nylas get more funding
Thursday, June 17, 2021 by Freeman Lightner
Nylas, the communications API platform for modern email, scheduling, and work automation tools for developers and enterprises, announced it has raised $120 million in Series C funding. The investment brings Nylas’ total funding to $175 million, further accelerating the growth of both Nylas and the API economy.
The round was led by Tiger Global Management with p...
GitHub Actions and other announcements from GitHub Universe
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
GitHub, the soon to be acquired by Microsoft company, has always been known for its source code repository capabilities for developers. But why just store the code on a platform when you can run it too?
At its annual developer conference, GitHub Universe, they announced Actions, which is essentially a way to help automate your development workflows. Actions use...
Automating API testing just got easier
Friday, June 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
SmartBear released a new update to SoapUI Pro, an automated API testing tool. SoapUI Pro 2.4 provides a new native Jenkins plugin for easy integration with the popular CI/CD tool and has enhanced the API Discovery capability to convert API traffic to automated API tests.
As organizations move to shift their testing into earlier development phases and adopt Agile prac...
Low code development platform gets an update from Filemaker
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
The low-code mobile app platform FileMaker, Inc. has announced the release of the FileMaker 17 platform which features starter apps and master-details layouts in hopes to make app development easier, and faster when using their tools. It also includes a redesigned FileMaker Server Admin Console and new FileMaker Admin API to help streamline custom app management.Compani...
Discussing Android OS in the Enterprise With Zebra Technologies
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently spoke with Bruce Willins, engineering fellow at Zebra Technologies, to discuss the versatility and power of the Android OS and how it’s used at an enterprise level in retail, manufacturing, supply chain and more.
ADM: Who is Zebra Technologies and what does the company do?
Willins: At Zebra, we make businesses as smart and connected...
Hyperwallet Releases New REST Payout API Out of Public Beta
Monday, July 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hyperwallet has moved its REST payout API out of public beta to general availability. The payout platform offers new developer features, including software development kits (SDKs), additional API calls, and a new self-serve developer portal. Hyperwallet also is implementing a webhook framework and prepaid card API calls for release this fall.Hyperwallet’s SDKs will be r...
Companies Reporting Widespread Use of APIs as Business Drivers
Monday, March 28, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In a recent CA Technologies study titled “APIs and the Digital Enterprise: From Operational Efficiency to Digital Disruption,” companies reported widespread use of APIs, but lack the full capacity for comprehensive API success. The global online survey of 1,442 senior IT and business executives was sponsored by CA Technologies and conducted by industry analyst firm Free...
Chatting With Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson About the API Economy Coming of Age
Monday, January 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson about emerging impact of the API economy. Jeff is a serial inventor with over 15 years of entrepreneurial and product experience. Prior to co-founding Twilio, Jeff was Founder & CTO of NineStar, Founding CTO of Stubhub.com and Founder, CEO and CTO of Versity. He was also one of the original product managers for Am...
Axway Launches New API Security Offerings
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Axway has made a number of updates to in its release of Axway 5 Suite API Management, release 7.4.1 including built-in API Firewalling capabilities. The Axway 5 Suite API Management platform provides companies with an enterprise-grade API management and security platform offering the ability to protect against malicious attacks, including Denial of Service (DoS), c...
Built.io Flow's Latest Release Offers Internet of Things (IoT) Integration
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Built.io has announced the general availability of its Built.io Flow offering updates to the platform that facilitates enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) integration connecting software, systems, sensors and devices. Built.io Flow is an integration-as-a-service platform that enables developers connect sensors, devices, systems and applications across mobile, w...
Amazon Guarantees App Developers $6 CPM for Interstitial Ads
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon is now offering a guaranteed $6 CPM for interstitial ads for new app developers who integrate the Amazon Mobile Ads API for the first time. The Amazon Mobile Ads API is an in-app display advertising solution to monetize mobile apps and games across platforms, including phones and tablets on Android, iOS, and Fire. With the Amazon Mobile Ad Network, developer...
Instagram Now Offers Self Serve Advertising Opportunities
Monday, June 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Instagram, owned by Facebook, has announced the availability of new self serving advertising opportunities on its platform. These include expanding ad product offerings, more relevant and comprehensive targeting capabilities and opening up the platform to a self-service/biddable model.Instagram’s expanded ad formats support website visits, app installs, and offline sale...
Mashape Releases Kong Open Source Management Layer for APIs
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mashape is launching Kong, an open source platform for managing microservices and APIs. Using NGINX as its proxy server, Kong enables developers to create plugins for authentication, rate limiting, transformations, and many other common utilities to expedite the creation of next-generation software in mobile, IoT, and the web.Kong is intended to be a replacement for leg...
Facebook Releases Marketing and Monetization Goodies for App Developers at F8
Friday, March 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
At the kickoff of its F8 developer conference, Facebook announced a broad number of products and tools to help developers build, grow, and monetize mobile apps.In attendance were more than 2,500 developers. Facebook announced that its developer community has doubled in size, and there are now hundreds of thousands of developers working with Facebook around the world wit...
Amazon Will Showcase How Game Developers Can Reach New Customers with Twitch at GDC
Monday, February 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
At GDC Amazon Will Showcase How Game Developers Can Reach New Customers with TwitchAmazon is diving deep into the GDC experience as it showcases its Twitch platform, Amazon Mobile Ads API, AWS, and the Amazon App Store. This year’s GDC will provide Amazon with a big opportunity to promote the Twitch live video-game-streaming service as an opportunity for game developers...
JavaScript Based Node.js v0.12 is Released
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Node.js is a platform built on the JavaScript runtime for building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, to facilitate data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.This latest version includes API updates that may require dependency updates. Here are...
Facebook Introduces Graph API v2.2 and Updates iOS and Android SDKs
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Facebook continues its commitment to release changes to its platform through versioning, and has announced the next version of the Graph API: v2.2. In addition, Facebook is releasing updated iOS and Android SDKs designed to work with API v2.2.Facebook v2.2 builds on v2.1 with a number of improvements, particularly for apps that manage Pages, and includes the ability to ...
Facebook Provides Developers New Ads API Access Levels
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook has announced a new approach to how new developers access the Facebook Ads API. With this new onboarding process, Facebook will help new developers get started on the API and guide them through the development lifecycle with these three new access levels which include:1) Development: Try out the Ads API and test apps on the Facebook platform.2) Basic: Further t...
Google Analytics Announces Google Tag Manager Enhancements
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Google Analytics team has announced new updates to Google Tag Manager including new APIs, a new interface to help launch and edit tags faster, and more 3rd-party templates.Google Tag Manager APIThe new Tag Manager API provides the ability to customize infrastructure to specific needs. This includes the ability to create and manage users as well as previewi...
Adobe Acquires Aviary’s Mobile Photo Editing SDKs to Add to its Creative Cloud Platform
Wednesday, September 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Adobe has added Aviary’s mobile SDKs (Software Development Kits) to its Creative Cloud mobile offerings. The acquisition of Aviary and the company’s SDKs is part of Adobe’s strategy to make its Creative Cloud a platform that developers utilize to build third-party apps, through Adobe’s new Creative SDK. Currently under development, Adobe Creative SDK is a software ...
Whitepages PRO Provides Mobile Developers Access to APIs
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Whitepages PRO has launched a self-service developer portal opening access to new company APIs which includes a data platform that provides access to one of the largest database of people and businesses in North America. Through the Graph APIs, developers can offer in their apps the ability to include identity verification and validation elements, including those c...
Microsoft Releases Developer Updates for Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone 8.1
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Windows Phone 8.1 Update emulator package are both now available for mobile developers. Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, is the latest full-featured update to the Visual Studio toolset. It contains many new features, including Application Insights updates, Git repository support in CodeLens and Release Management support for Windows Desi...
Amazon Mobile Ads API Now Offers iOS App Support for Interstitial and Banner Ads
Thursday, July 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Amazon Mobile Ads API allows developers to display ads from the Amazon Mobile Ad Network in their apps, and now, both interstitial and banner ads can be displayed across iOS devices in addition to Android and Fire OS devices (including Fire phone). With this release, Amazon is also expanding ad serving to Android and iOS users in the US, the UK, Germany, ...
Twitter Opens Mobile App Promotion Program Out of Beta
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Announced earlier this year in beta, Twitter’s new mobile app promotion platform provides the ability to create promoted tweets that link directly to the Android and iOS app stores, where users can then download the app immediately.The platform leverages Twitter’s existing targeting capabilities, including interest, keyword, TV targeting and tailored audiences...
Zend Launches Apigility 1.0 Interface for Building and Maintaining APIs
Monday, May 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Zend has announced the general availability of Apigility 1.0, a simple, standard interface for building and maintaining APIs. Apigility eliminates the challenges traditionally associated with designing and implementing APIs, while simplifying support for advanced API traits such as versioning, validation, error handling, documentation and more.As the company p...
Khronos Releases OpenGL ES 3.1 Specification
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL ES 3.1 specification, bringing new functionality to its royalty-free 3D graphics API that is used on nearly all of the world’s mobile devices. OpenGL ES 3.1 provides access to state-of-the-art graphics processing unit (GPU) functionality with portability across mobile and embedded operating systems and ...
Why Android is Good for the Enterprise
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 by Catherine Merzlova
Android has gained a reputation of being a very reliable
and inexpensive mobile operating system both for users and developers, but so far has lacked credibility in the enterprise.As it stands today most enterprise apps are developed on Apple's iOS, but Google isn't throwing in the towel just yet and now their aim is to make it's Andro...
Amazon Guarantees App Developers $1.50 CPM for Banner Ads in March and April
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Amazon Mobile Ads service has announced that it is guaranteeing $1.50 cpm (up to 2 million impressions per app per month) on banner ads during March and April 2014 for serving mobile ads through the Amazon Mobile Ad Network.To qualify for this offer, developers will need to integrate the Amazon Mobile Ads API into their apps and send the first ad request b...
New SOA Software Services for API Monetization for Enterprises
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
New advanced API licensing and dynamic documentation capabilities have been announced by SOA Software to help businesses further monetize their data, applications, and services. SOA Software offers API management and SOA governance services including their API Management Solution, which offers advanced licensing capabilities enabling businesses to support...
App Developers Can Now Target Twitter Ads by Device, OS Version, and WiFi
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Twitter is now letting advertiser’s segment audiences on iOS and Android by operating system version, specific device, and WiFi connectivity. The company is also introducing granular reporting analytics for those targeting types across all campaigns.
Previously, Twitter offered advertisers the ability to reach mobile users by targeting only their operating system. The ...
Amazon “App Store Developer Select Program” Recruits HD Optimized Apps
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Want 500,000 free mobile ad impressions? Amazon is offering just that as it continues its push to recruit app developers with its recently announced Appstore Developer Select program.
Developers who submit qualifying apps receive enhanced services including 500,000 free mobile ad impressions across the Amazon Mobile Ad Network, participation in the Amazon Coins Reward...
Amazon Launches It's Own Mobile Ads API
Sunday, July 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Amazon announced the general availability of the Amazon Mobile Ads API which they say gives developers the ability to earn high eCPM by monetizing their app with mobile ads from the Amazon Mobile Ad Network.Amazon says it's eCPM has increased 30% since the beta launch in March, and early adopters such as Games2Win are reporting that the Amazon Mobile Ads API h...
Introducing the Amazon Mobile Ads API (Beta)
Monday, March 4, 2013 by Richard Harris
Amazon developers rejoice, they have now taken the next step to help you make more money!Announcing the Amazon Mobile Ads API, now available in beta. The Amazon Mobile Ads API is an in-app display advertising monetization solution, which offers: A great monetization opportunity with competitive eCPMHigh-quality ads from Amazon and brand advertisers such as Duracel...
