Usage of application programming interfaces (APIs) to embed a variety of communications services into applications has become one of the hottest segments of the overall API economy. This week, ...

Application programming interfaces (APIs) expand ecosystems and market presence for major services such as Google Maps, Lyft and Facebook, and they have created new market channels and products for ...

IBM has acquired StepZen, a company that aims to make it easier for developers to build GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs), and improve the performance of tools that use REST APIs.

Despite REST's position as the de facto standard in web services development, it's not without some shortcomings. Data exchange formats can be bloated, and it lacks standards for API documentation and ...

REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer, an architectural style that has become extremely popular over the past few years. A RESTful API is one that it is built in accordance with the ...