App integration startup Zapier has launched a new API status dashboard, a tool that can help developers and companies identify downtime for about 200 APIs.
But will $4.2 million help it compete with the Intel-powered force that is Mashery?
CA Technologies confirmed today via a press release that it would be acquiring Layer7, a provider of API management technologies.
Two months after closing $13.5 million in funding, hitting revenue of $1 million a month, and reaching the 300,000 new users a day plateau, app discovery platform AppGratis has been pulled from the iOS App Store by Apple.
“We spend all day talking to people who are finding goldmines in this data," said the Gnip's COO. Now, the company has just opened a ton of new goldmines.
MuleSoft, an integration-focused startup that helps huge and tiny companies alike, has raised $37 million in its fifth round of funding.
Cloud communications startup Twilio has partnered with Google to bring voice and messaging abilities to apps being developed with Google App Engine, the companies announced today.
For PayPal's grand plan of world payment domination to succeed, it needs developers. And to attract devs, it needs tools that don't send them running to competitors.
"Big data" and analytics startup Sociocast has raised $1 million in new funding, which it will use hire new stuff and to beef up its flagship Prediction API product.
Cloud service providers need to authenticate hundreds of thousands of users every day. Stormpath wants to take over that responsibility.
Cloud-focused messaging startups SendGrid and Twilio have teamed up to empower SendGrid enterprise customers with a suite of messaging tools, including transactional emails, SMS, voicemails, and push notifications.
Twitter's new calendar of upcoming API changes will help developers avoid nasty surprises.
Editor's Pick The handy utility If This Then That (IFTTT) recently announced the end of its Twitter integration. Fortunately, there are workaround.
Amazon has opened up a new Maps API so Kindle Fire app developers can ditch Google Maps and instead integrate Amazon’s mapping tech.
Guest Post With the newfound success of LinkedIn's news feed, Twitter has a huge new competitor with the potential to swamp them, particularly in one critical area. And, it is all of their own making.
Web content analysis startup Diffbot has launched a new beta API called "Page Classifier" that can reveal the page type and language behind any URL.
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Contrary to rumors, social media startup Hootsuite is not actively raising another round — but if it were, its price tag would be even higher than reported.
We had a nice chat yesterday with Hootsuite CEO and founder Ryan Holmes. …
API management startup Apigee has raised $20 million in its fifth round of funding to help it expand into new markets, the company announced today.
More than 100 billion API calls per month run through Apigee’s platform. Notable Apigee clients …
Public transit data, a key piece of the Google Maps experience, will soon find its way into third-party applications as the map-making experts at Google have just added transit to its Maps API.
Now developers plugging Google’s Maps product into …
Craigslist has blocked apartment-finding site PadMapper. Chief executive Eric DeMenthon made the announcement today on the PadMapper blog that all Craiglist-sourced rentals are being deleted from the PadMapper database.
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