Less than a year after raising $25M led by Microsoft for its take on building API marketplaces, RapidAPI has rapidly followed that up with another infusion of capital as it reaches 20,000 APIs tracked, integrated, and used across its marketplace by millions of developers. Today the startup is announcing that it raised another $25 million from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, Green Bay Ventures, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), and Grove.
APIs are the building blocks of today’s digital world: developers use them to quickly integrate features, data, services and functions into their own apps, removing the need to build and scale all those elements themselves from scratch. But while the big selling point of using APIs is that they allow developers to integrate using only a few lines of code, that doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Today's Numbers: The COVID Economy - Marketplace
"The leading economic indicator is … the virus." More than one analyst has put it to us this way. As we try to understand and quantify this unprecedented global economic collapse — and now the attempted restart — we're following key metrics for COVID-19 and the broader economy.
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Keep in mind: The tally of COVID-19 cases represents only the ones that are documented. Since many remain untested, surely the real number is higher.
Many states have started to relax the restrictions put in place in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. Although social-distancing measures still hold virtually everywhere in the country, more than half of states have started to phase out stay-at-home orders and phase in business reopenings. Others, like New York , are on slower timelines.
Uberflip Launches Marketplace To Unify Martech Stacks
Uberflip , a digital content marketing platform, has launched an ecosystem of integrations and apps designed to help marketers to connect Uberflip with their martech stack to seamlessly orchestrate the buyer journey.
Uberflip Marketplace is designed to be a hub for marketers to connect data sources, content formats, design templates, sales tools and more, enabling them to create personalized campaign destinations for buyers. The Marketplace launched with 40 apps and integrations that offer the ability to customize content experiences across 11 categories, including personalization, analytics and API-driven integrations.
Booking.com CEO says travel industry to be "most dislocated" - Marketplace
When the COVID-19 outbreak halted the Chinese economy in January, travel companies saw a glimpse of what was coming for the rest of the world.
The coronavirus pandemic has put a stop to corporate travel, and many summer vacations have been canceled — and it could take years for demand to recover. Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke about this with Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking.com and its parent company, Booking Holdings, which owns travel sites like Priceline and Kayak as well as the restaurant-reservation service OpenTable.
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How to read those unemployment numbers - Marketplace
The Consumer Reports CEO on fighting for protections in our online world - Marketplace
We're spending more time online these days, relying on the internet to work, learn and connect with each other. But the hard-won regulations that protect consumers in the analog world haven't always caught up with the rapidly changing digital marketplace.
The issue has been thrown into stark relief during the COVID-19 pandemic as scams, opportunism and misinformation has flourished in our online communities.
Consumer Reports has been tracking how consumers are faring during the pandemic. Survey results show that many Americans are delaying planned purchases or abandoning those plans altogether.
Why people still love Pac-Man, 40 years later - Marketplace
“There was this little island of color and cuteness,” Oyzon said. “So yeah, I gravitated straight to it.”
The game, from Bandai Namco Entertainment in Japan, had a fun concept with a bold design. And it had great music.
“It was sort of this happy little tune, and there was this little moon-yellow thing that was chopping away at it,” she said. “This little circle thing going, ‘Waka, waka, waka!'”
What will it be like to shop in a reopened Sephora? - Marketplace
Sephora will begin reopening its stores in 13 states Friday. The company is known for its hands-on in-store experience — you get to try on the makeup or have your eyebrows done. And its plan for reopening, which includes a long list of precautions and procedures, gives us a glimpse into how beauty retailers will adapt in this era.
When you go to Sephora, it really is an experience. At the door you're hit with the — some might say overwhelming — scent of perfume. Then you see the makeup-testing stations, with disposable cotton balls and mascara wands. You can dip your fingers in a pot of foundation to see if the color works for you.
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