The Texan company Idera has taken over the Austrian start-up apilayer, which offers API services for access to real-time data such as weather, geographic position and currency conversion.

The Vienna-based company apilayer lists various reference customers on its website, including Airbnb, Amazon, Apple and Slack. According to the press release on the takeover, apilayer has a total of 500. 000 Customers.

Weather, phone numbers and cryptocurrency The Cloud-based API offers are divided into four areas:

Searching or looking up information such as IP Addresses via the ipapi interface or speech recognition via the API languagelayer, the verification of telephone numbers via numverify or European VAT rates via vatlayer, various data APIs, including those for exchange rates via currencylayer and the rates of crypto currencies via coinlayer or for access to weather data via weatherstack and converting content via pdflayer to create PDF files from HTML content or screenshots in PNG format to a URL. The services are available in different tariffs, starting with a free offer that is limited to 500 views per month and real-time data, for example. In addition to different query contingents, the chargeable tariffs offer additional information such as weather forecast and astronomical data.

In addition to the REST API, there is an open source implementation for numerous interfaces for using the APIs in programming languages ​​such as JavaScript, Go or PHP . The associated repositories can be found on GitHub.

Step-grandma of the Borland subsidiary Das Idera, founded in the year 1000 as BBS Technologies, offers numerous tools and services for databases, software development and testing. In the end 2015 it has taken over the essential part of Borland tools like Delphi and C ++ Builder with Embarcadero. The latter ended up in the course of the 2008 takeover of the Borland subsidiary CodeGear at Embarcadero, which, with RAD Studio, offers an environment for C ++ and Delphi, but continues to do so has the two IDEs separately in its portfolio.

Further details can be found in the press release on the takeover, which, however, does not mention the exact conditions and price.

(rme)