Growth in mobile payment use in Spain is still limited: the consumer habit transformation process always takes time. However, there is a wide offering of services linked to mobile payments, particularly from banks and leading tech companies, with a view to seducing a growing market.
The cryptocurrency boom is far from over, and developers have been hard at work creating robust application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate existing software with new software based on cryptocurrencies.
Chartbeat, Webtrends and KISSmetrics are three good examples of tools that, thanks to their APIs, can compete perfectly with Google Analytics, although the competition scenario is not that simple.
App users must be aware that a button... is in fact a clickable button. Therefore, app buttons must be designed in such a way that users should feel invited to interact with the interface and actually click on it.
Many companies today have their business based in the cloud, and in particular their data storage services. For all of them, APIs are essential if they want to win the battle of leadership and business creation.
Facebook is still the largest social network in the world. Leveraging its size, it can reach audiences that were inaccessible to all platforms until now. More than 2 billion people are active and more than 1.5 billion use it every day. The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg has become indispensable for digital businesses across the planet. If you own a business, you must ponder your Facebook presence, at the very least to consider whether it can help you draw attention to your products or services.
Any company that wants to start an 'APIfication' process for its business model will need to carry out certain simple but essential tasks.
Companies and institutions are coming together to develop smart cities as international meeting points and business hubs. Barcelona, New York, the Australian government or the EU for example have been using APIs to drive connected cities. Rudolf Giffinger, one of the world's leading experts in urban development, defines smart cities using six clearly separate criteria: economy, mobility, environment, administration, way of life and residents. Most cities in the world assess their characteristics as smart cities based on these values.
