3D body scanning systems have hit the big time after years of stops and starts. Hot on the heels of Original Stitch’s Bodygram, another 3D scanner, 3DLOOK, has entered into the fray with a $1 million investment to measure bodies around the world. The founders, Vadim Rogovskiy, Ivan Makeev, and Alex Arapovd, created 3DLOOK when […]
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Taking the pain out of accounting and payroll for small businesses, ScaleFactor raises $10 million
ScaleFactor, the Techstars alumnus that’s selling accounting and payroll management software as a service, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding as it looks to scale up its sales and marketing efforts. Founded by longtime accountant, Kurt Rathmann, the Austin-based company has created a software service that collects and analyzes data from […]
View More Taking the pain out of accounting and payroll for small businesses, ScaleFactor raises $10 millionResearcher discovers Venmo exposes ‘an alarming amount’ of personal data in public API
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Next time you make a payment on Venmo, beware: almost anyone can track it.
The popular mobile payments app is sharing users’ personal data — including real names, comments sent with the payment, transaction dates, and recipients of the transaction — with the public by default. This information is being exposed through company’s public API, and it can be hidden by adjusting your privacy settings from “Public” to “Private.”
Security researcher Hang Do Thi Duc recently discovered this “alarming amount” of information being leaked by examining the public API. The reason its happening, the researcher suggests, is because the Venmo app’s default settings are set to “Public” for all users. Read more…
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View More Researcher discovers Venmo exposes ‘an alarming amount’ of personal data in public APIGoogle’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem
Google acquired API management service Apigee back in 2016, but it’s been pretty quiet around the service in recent years. Today, however, Apigee announced a number of smaller updates that introduce a few new integrations with the Google Cloud platform, as well as a major new partnership with cloud data management and integration firm Informatica […]
View More Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystemFacebook rolls out more API restrictions and shutdowns
Following the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal and the more recent discovery of a Facebook app that had been leaking data on 120 million users, Facebook is today announcing a number of API changes aimed at better protecting user information. The changes will impact multiple developer-facing APIs, including those used to create social experiences on the […]
View More Facebook rolls out more API restrictions and shutdownsDeliveroo opens up POS integration for restaurant partners via an API
Restaurant food delivery startup Deliveroo is opening up Point of Sale (POS) integrations to restaurant partners, via an API and developer portal, after trialling the approach this spring and finding appetite for uptake. The integration is intended to free up front-of-house staff from having to manually input Deliveroo food orders into the restaurant’s sales system. […]
View More Deliveroo opens up POS integration for restaurant partners via an APIApple is introducing a health record API for developers this fall
For all of the news that Apple managed to cram into today’s 135-minute(!) WWDC keynote this morning, the event was actually pretty light on health care updates. It was a bit of a surprise, given how much of a focus the company has put on the space at past events. Apple did announce an interesting […]
View More Apple is introducing a health record API for developers this fallFacebook data misuse firm snubs UK watchdog’s legal order
The company at the center of a major Facebook data misuse scandal has failed to respond to a legal order issued by the U.K.’s data protection watchdog to provide a U.S. voter with all the personal information it holds on him. An enforcement notice was served on Cambridge Analytica affiliate SCL Elections last month and the deadline […]
View More Facebook data misuse firm snubs UK watchdog’s legal orderLearn about APIs and how to use them with this set of 6 online courses on sale for less than $30
To the uninitiated, API stands for Application Programming Interface. Technical jargon aside, it’s basically a set of codes commercial sites permit others to borrow, allowing them to use it however they want. Take Twitter, for example: You don’t imag…
View More Learn about APIs and how to use them with this set of 6 online courses on sale for less than $30Music payments startup Exactuals debuts R.AI, a “Palantir for music royalties”
Exactuals, a software service offering payments management for the music industry, is debuting R.AI, a new tool that it’s dubbed the “Palantir for music”. It’s a service that can track songwriting information and rights across different platforms to ensure attribution for music distributors. As companies like Apple and Spotify demand better information from labels about the […]
View More Music payments startup Exactuals debuts R.AI, a “Palantir for music royalties”Twitter is down
Reports of Twitter being down are coming in from across the global. The homepage and mobile app is currently down. The desktop API still works so users can connect to the service through apps like Tweetdeck and Tweetbot. According to downdetector.com, users are experience an outage across the world. The issue appeared at 9:50 AM EDT. […]
View More Twitter is downFacebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie
Chris Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower whose revelations about Facebook data being misused for political campaigning has wiped billions off the share price of the company in recent days and led to the FTC opening a fresh investigation, has suggested the scale of the data leak is substantially larger than has been […]
View More Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie