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Data-sharing service provider Mashery raises $2M, as more companies look to share data

Posted on June 26, 2008

Mashery, to put it simply, helps companies to more easily share their data with outside developers. By making this data more accessible, a company can let other developers use their own creativity to put the information to work.This is technology, called application programming interfaces (or APIs), has been around for years, that has assumed new relevance as more and more web-connected services look to grow. Auction site eBay has let developers build auction services using its auction data for many years, for example. But APIs are buzzwords these days, and exemplified to consumers by social n...

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