Posts Tagged ‘open api

You may have heard about the social graph and the interest graph, but what about the health graph? Thanks to RunKeeper, this term may soon become an oft-used part of your vocabulary. RunKeeper, for those unfamiliar, was founded three years ago as a simple iPhone app and a small online fitness community designed to help [...]

App developer Catch.com announced on Tuesday that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Excel Venture Management. The company’s flagship product is note-taking app Catch Notes, which allows users to capture text, images and locations to create a “private feed” virtual notebook. The company is also behind the popular Android Compass [...]

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Snapr Quick Pitch: Mobile photo-sharing app Snapr plots uploaded photos on a map that other users can browse. Its new [...]

Adam Kleinberg is co-founder and CEO at Traction, an interactive agency that aligns psychology with technology to create ideas that work. Catch him tweeting at @adamkleinberg and blogging at tractionco.com/blog. The most effective ads today are experiences that provide value to customers. The biggest challenge is providing that value at scale in a world where [...]

MasterCard said today that later this year it will release Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open APIs) for third-party and independent software developers around the globe. MasterCard says by opening previously proprietary payments and data services, developers will be able to create new ecommerce and mobile payment applications. The new Open API program is the first [...]


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