An API is like a magic box. We send data in a specific format. We then get data back in a specific format. This magical box is simply a script kept on a server. It acts as a gatekeeper — we tell the ...

LinkedIn has shut off API access to fellow professional social network Viadeo and a number of other startups who have been tapping into LinkedIn’s firehose of data via its open API program. The other ...

LinkedIn is leaking again. The least-cool social network known to mankind suffered a massive data breach this week, affecting some 700 million users — more than 90 percent of the network’s overall ...

LinkedIn is restricting access to most of its application programming interfaces (APIs) to companies that have struck up partnerships with the social networking company. “Over the past several years, ...

LinkedIn’s new API is a big deal. Why? Because LinkedIn’s members are established professionals, and many of them pay for their membership. Privacy and control ...