Seeing the signs (and locating them) with Google Street View and deep learning
Street signs are everywhere, but where they are precisely is not always known by the local government authorities that manage them.
Street signs are everywhere, but where they are precisely is not always known by the local government authorities that manage them.
Lufthansa Group is increasingly turning to APIs as a way to expand its digital reach, cut out aggregators and diversify its direct sales channels.
When Salesforce announced in March its plan to acquire API platform developer MuleSoft for US$6.5 billion it said there was potential to turn MuleSoft (estimated FY18 sales $415 million) into a $10 billion business.
Small business cloud accounting platform Xero has announced the imminent release of an open banking API.
A competition run on data science crowd-sourcing platform Kaggle has found the prediction of epileptic seizures is possible in far more people living with the condition than previously thought.
Applications are the “new battleground” as companies continue to embark on digital transformation projects. That’s according to Mark Iles, executive consultant and industry analyst for Tech Research Australia, who spoke at a recent Computerworld and AppDynamics Breakfast Exchange.
As one Australian Securities and Investments Commission employee put it at a RegTech event in Sydney earlier this week: “If fintech start-ups are tech rich and the banks are data rich then I think it’s fair to say that ASIC is text rich. Our regulatory guidance is all text based.”
Twilio’s APIs are behind some of the essential features of Australia’s most popular apps. Increasingly, when a developer wants to add SMS functionality (like when an Uber driver messages that they are waiting outside) or the ability to voice call (like with Airtasker) into their software, they have used Twilio’s building blocks to do so.
Creating open APIs has helped TomTom Telematics build an ecosystem of third-party developers who are using its WEBFLEET platform as the basis of a range of fleet and vehicle management applications, delivering additional features to customers across a range of industries.
The first report of a parliamentary committee scrutinising the operations of Australia’s Big Four banks has called for the government to mandate the API-based sharing of the customer and small business data held by banks.
Financial institutions that fail to make their APIs available are ‘doomed’, says Visa’s ANZ head of product Rob Walls.
Introducing API and mobile-first architecture in order to push the reuse of technology, as well as implementing social coding practices, is one of the key priorities for the Digital Labs wing of IAG in FY17.
As Telstra continues its shift from just being a telecommunications carrier to what it likes to describe as “a world class technology company that empowers people to connect”, the company’s software teams have been given a mandate to take an API-first approach to development whenever possible.
Application programming interfaces are a tool to aid software development. But according to Deloitte, they're also increasingly a business model driver and boardroom consideration for enterprises.
According to Intel subsidiary Mashery there is a growing interest among Australian businesses in using APIs to open to new channels and cultivate new business opportunities.