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 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 says that it cut off access to its API for BeKnown because the app was using the LinkedIn APIs to send messages to promote BeKnown (and thus profit from the API). LinkedIn is also concerned ...

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, ...