Getting started with Python APIs Application program interfaces 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 gatekeeper that we would like to know, change, or delete something, and the gatekeeper will (hopefully) perform the action we request and let us know how it went....

With a population of over 150 million people, Nigeria has the potential to be Africa’s leading broadband powerhouse. However, according toMain One Cable, a private undersea cable infrastructure provider in West Africa, broadband penetration in the country is currently less than 3%. As such, there is tremendous opportunity in the broadband space in Nigeria especially in the mobile space where the country isestimatedto have about 90 million subscribers. At the recent Broadband Investment Summit held in July in Lagos, Nigeria, industry operators, stakeholders and service providers ranging from Google Nigeria to Phase 3 Telecoms were present among others, and industry papers were presented on broadband access in Nigeria....

Peer pressure can be a powerful thing, and a German startup is looking to harness it with an ingenious new app calledGetUppthat aims to help you honour your commitments. Let’s say that you want an extra nudge to make sure that you go to the gym after work. You use the Web app or iPhone app to specify a trip to the gym, mark the its location on a map and state the time you plan to be there....

The ever-expanding Facebook is opening a new office in our home city of Amsterdam! Four employees will start out at Facebook’s Amsterdam office, which joins the ranks of its many international ad sales offices including Dublin, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Selangor, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. The Dutch Daily News reportsthat the new office will help Facebook tap into the 145 million Euro a year market of Internet advertisers in the Benelux, the economic union in Western Europe comprised of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg....

The European bankAXAhas created a giant QR code to entice customers in Belgium into learning about its loan campaign. With a smartphone in hand, it’s very likely you’d be compelled to unlock a QR code, especially if you saw a giant QR code made of paint cans hanging from the sky. AXA’s creative advertisement consists of thousands of paint cans, sporting an array of various colours that make up the interactive QR code....