Google has announced that, starting with Chrome 60, it will support the Web Budget API. The new W3C API can be used to retrieve budget amounts associated with background operations, as well as the cost associated with such operations. Google pitches the API as an improvement over the Push Messaging API as developers can now perform some level of background work without informing the user.

PDFfiller releases API 2.0 - an enhanced platform for embedding the ability to edit, host and sign PDF documents into an app or company website. The new solution incorporates PDFfiller’s intuitive editor and signature manager into applications built with PHP, JS and Java clients.

Before we head off into the first weekend of the summer, let’s review the news we couldn’t cover with a look at what what going on in the world of APIs. Just in time for summer, Sygic is offering its trip planning API and SDKs to developers.

AerisWeather has released version 1.7.0 of its Aeris Weather API as production ready. The latest release includes both improvements/bug fixes as well as new features. Feature additions of note allow users to track lightning strikes, and mixed casing within the location search functionality.

eBay has announced the availability of two new Sell and Buy APIs; the Taxonomy API and Buy Marketing API. The company also announced some of the existing Sell and Buy APIs have been updated to add new features. eBay’s Sell and Buy APIs were launched this past October, and will eventually replace the legacy Trading API.

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

The 1946 biography of Woodrow Wilson includes an interesting quote:

A member of the Cabinet congratulated Wilson on introducing the vogue of short speeches and asked him about the time it took him to prepare his speeches. He said:

“It depends. If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.”

Similar sayings can be found from other great speakers:

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

CA Technologies today announced new capabilities within its API Management portfolio in an attempt to help developers, enterprise architects and digital leaders create and deploy microservices—and manage the APIs that connect and orchestrate microservices to build application architectures. The latest features include:

Google has released the TensorFlow Object Detection API, a new API that provides access to an open source framework for constructing, training and deploying object detection models. The framework is built on top of Google's TensorFlow, an open source software library that developers can use to deploy (via TensorFlow APIs) numerical computation to mobile devices, desktops, and servers.