PayPal plugs in Azure, woos developers
News Michael Ivey, chief executive and co-founder of TwitPay, also took the stage to show his company's use of the new PayPal API — specifically to let people pay multiple people at once. Sites already using the new API include Webassist, GroupCard...
[July 24, 2009, 16:42]
EBay: OS for the highest bidder
News EBay's new technology -- with the decidedly uncatchy name of eBay API (for eBay application programming interface) -- reflects the company's growing belief that it can get a piece of e-commerce beyond the confines of its popular online trading...
[November 20, 2000, 12:55]
Amazon makes Web services move
News In November 2000, eBay launched a program for developers that allows them to tap into its application programming interface (API). Using Extensible Markup Language (XML), third-party companies can use the API to display eBay listings on their own...
[July 18, 2002, 11:23]
Microsoft Hailstorm rains on AOL
News Microsoft on Monday also disclosed five development partners for its .Net plan, including eBay, which announced its partnership last week.eBay and Microsoft entered into a strategic technology exchange that includes turning the eBay API...
[March 20, 2001, 7:26]
Timing's right for MS .Net
News Microsoft announced on Monday its deal to work with eBay on evolving eBay's API development platform. Simultaneously, Microsoft is working with third-party companies, such as auction giant eBay, to build Web services that are founded on Microsoft's...
[March 15, 2001, 8:18]
Yahoo releases e-commerce programming tools
News The product search API lets developers add applications onto commerce sites that search the Yahoo Shopping database by keyword, merchant, price range or product category and filter merchants according to their Yahoo User ratings.
[August 4, 2005, 13:35]
Amazon casts its net wider
News It will be delivered to partners through a basic application program interface (API). The API-based tool is part of Amazon's associates programme, which rewards retailers that refer sales to Amazon with a slice of related profits.
[July 21, 2003, 14:33]
Amazon, Google lead new path to Web services
News There are actually sites that are directories of Web services using the Amazon API. Another application combines the Amazon service with a Weblogger API to let users create a link to an Amazon product page on a Weblog in just one step.
[November 25, 2002, 10:07]
iPhone's open-heart surgery on the enterprise
News It's a wrapper around the OS X API, a solid dose of the Apple development environment — now enterprise strength! But then partner after partner marched across the stage — eBay, Associated Press, games developers, blog companies, doctors, even solo...
[June 10, 2008, 7:59]
PayPal hit by global outage
News PayPal's developer site said the outage hit not just its web page, but also PayPal's application programming interface (API), which lets applications use the service without having to go through the website.
[August 4, 2009, 8:42]
Google fosters ties with developers
News Meanwhile, the Google Gadgets API lets third parties build mini-applications that reside within — and enhance — the Google home page or Google Desktop. As web applications become more functional, developer programmes have become important...
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
