Moderators of thousands of Reddit’s forums maintain blackout in protest at API fees, after Reddit CEO doubles down
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Microsoft To Remove Twitter From Advertising Platform, Musk Threatens Lawsuit
Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft after it announced plan to remove Twitter from its corporate advertising platform
How Secure are Composable Architectures?
As composable architectures continue to expand and influence the future of e-commerce, is the security of these technologies being fully considered? Is composable intrinsically more secure than the monolith?
Major Twitter Outage Caused By Single Engineer – Report
Cost of conducting mass layoffs? Major Twitter outage this week triggered by just one engineer shutting down free access to Twitter API
Oracle’s Android Lawsuit Against Google Heard At US Supreme Court
Ten year old Android dispute is heard before highest court in the United States this week, as Oracle seeks ruling on epic Google fued
Latvia Set To Release Covid-19 App Based On Tech Companies’ Framework
Latvia is aiming to be one of the first countries to release a Covid-19 contact-tracing app based on Apple and Google's API, released only last week
Coronavirus: Apple, Google Release Contact Tracing API
Both firms say 22 countries and a number of US states have requested to use the contact-tracing API for their own systems
Twitter Warns ‘State-Sponsored Actors’ Accessed Phone Numbers
Platform warns IP addresses with 'ties to state-sponsored actors' attempted to access phone numbers associated with user accounts
Arrival Of Open Banking To Spearhead ‘Technological Revolution’ In Finance
Open Banking: New rules that require banks to share information with third party providers come into effect. But what does it mean?
NHS Launches API Lab To Promote Health Sector Data Exchange
NHS Digital is to collaborate with the supplier-led INTEROPen group on the development of APIs for exchanging health data
Instagram API Flaw Reveals Celebrity Data
Oops. Celebrity email addresses and telephone numbers exposed by flaw with Instagram API
Kubernetes 1.7 Improves Container Security And API Aggregation
Second major release of Kubernetes in 2017 debuts, providing new stable features to improve the extensibility and security
Google Expands WebVR API To Its Cardboard Virtual Reality Headset
The search giant looks to be paving the way to a virtual reality ecosystem
Google Brings WebVR API Into Chrome
Developers will be able to create VR software for the Chrome browser to cover both desktop and mobile environments
Researcher Warns On Privacy Risks Of Web Bluetooth Spec
Upcoming API aims to let websites access your kettle, smartphone and heart rate monitor
IBM Touts Trio Of Partnerships To Spread Watson IoT Further
Cognitive computing from Big Blue has IoT in its sights
Google Snaps-up API.ai Startup To Boost Natural Language Capabilities
Google continues to push ahead with building out its smart software
HPE Aruba Gives Mobile and IoT Networks API Flexibility
Mobile First Platform allows the integration of third-party services via APIs and delivers real-time network information.
Google Snaps Up API Firm Apigee To Boost Cloud Offering
The buy is aimed at boosting enterprise cloud offerings for web and mobile apps, Google says
Google Launches Betas Of New Machine Learning APIs
Cloud Natural Language API and Cloud Speech API opened as betas for analysing large chunks of text and speech
Red Hat Grows Again As It Snaps Up API Firm 3scale
Red Hat records yet more revenue growth and announces acquisition of 3scale to bolster API management credentials
Oracle, Google Return To The Courtroom Over Android
Epic copyright showdown returns to court, six years after Oracle vs Google battle first went legal
Hootsuite Open APIs Squeeze More Value Out Of Technology Investments
Hootsuite's open APIs allow customers to connect social content and functionality to their existing platform
Swipebuster Uses Open API To Identify Tinder Users
Tinder's privacy comes into question as new service lets people find out who is using the application
CA Technologies Redoubles Efforts On DevOps With Slew Of Product Releases
CA World 2015: CA Technologies hammers home message of cultural shift legacy enterprises need to implement to keep up with the Ubers of this world
Yahoo To Close Maps, Pipes And Other Services
Yahoo is to close a number of products and regional websites, as well as end support for older Apple kit
New Google Maps API Allows Embedded Website Maps
A new Google Maps Embed API makes it easier for Webmasters to insert Google Maps into their websites
MWC 2014: Why Did CA Technologies Buy Layer 7?
Dmitri Sirota from CA thinks good API security results in happier developers.
Import.io: “We Turn Any Website Into A Database”
Andrew Fogg from Import.io thinks the future of the Web is in APIs
Google Offers Mobile Developers New Cloud Endpoints
New Google Cloud Endpoints should ease the coding burden for mobile app developers