For apps and tools, this means increased distribution and access to a vast pool of users (mostly long tail) through open APIs ...

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It’s been almost five years since we heard that “software is eating the world.” The number of SaaS applications has exploded and there is a rising wave of software innovation in the area of APIs that ...

Application programming interfaces — more commonly known as APIs — are at the heart of the most successful digital companies, powering everything from Amazon’s cloud business to Google ads to Facebook ...

It could be argued that the contemporary world of the web is built on application programming interfaces (APIs) – or, more specifically, web APIs that allow a web application to access services and ...

President Barack Obama has pledged to make the U.S. Government more open and transparent. As a senator, he was off to a promising start by trying to expand the amount of government data offered up to ...

Secure development practices typically focus on web application security. Just as organizations take measures against the most common vulnerabilities, hackers have invested more effort into API ...

Security is a major concern in web-based enterprise applications. When you need to transmit data over the wire, you should be aware of the various tools you can use to secure that data. ASP.Net Web ...