Nowadays, most businesses have a technology component, although nobody would say that their company is technological because it uses e-mail or mobile phones. The same applies to APIs and tools that enable your company to operate.
Books also have a place in the world of APIs. In this article we analyze the details and features of Amazon, Google Books and ISBN's open APIs, and take a look at book identifiers. The ISBN, including their control digits, can be a headache, so the best idea is always to verify the validity of your code before calling any API.
Using an optimal credential or authentication system is vital to ensure the security of an application programming interface. OAuth 2.0 has become the basic security protocol for mobile APIs development and for providing credentials to launch native applications. The basic HTTP access authentication method does not guarantee the same level of security.
From the beginning of the 21st century, large companies have been developing APIs so that they could become the technological key they are today.
Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Adidas, Under Armour, Pebble, Fitbit, Misfit… Business derived from wearables is growing over time. Sales keep going up and more revenue is being forecast but none of this would be possible without APIs.
Amazon, Salesforce and IBM are waging a battle for the control of cloud-based services, primarily the creation, deployment and control of scalable infrastructure for third-party cloud-based applications. Here are some of their most interesting APIs.
Every day new international companies begin using APIs to improve their business and offer new services. We discuss the alliance between Dolby and Google Analytics APIs.
One of the greatest recent technology revolutions is the management of data in the cloud, both for processing large volumes of information and for managing services for end users. Almost no company in the world conceives of cloud-based services without APIs. Below are four articles where you can find out more about APIs and cloud computing.
PredicSis AI, PredictionIO and Seldon are three platforms using APIs to collect and manage large volumes of aggregated data that is used to create predictive models. Here we explain how they work and their main features.
Insurtech is –for the time being– the fintech companies' little brother. We take a closer look at the Insurtech sector and pick out four international online tools that offer their APIs for medical, driving, life and other types of insurance to the public.
