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September 8, 2011 06:00 pm GMT
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Mashape Turns Down Acquisition Offers; Raises Seed Round From Big Name Investors
APIs are hot. Twitter attracts 15 billion API calls per day, and Saleforce.com receives 50 percent of its traffic through its API, to site a few big name examples. So here's a simple thought: If everyone and their mother is beginning to take advantage of APIs, why not create a marketplace where developers can easily discover, distribute, and consume all things API? This was the thinking employed by a young Italian startup (transplanted to San Francisco) named Mashape. As we wrote in our original profile of the startup in June, simply put: Mashape wants to be a little bit Etsy, a little bit Github by offering a unified, all-in-one marketplace where users can find, sell, distribute, and hack on APIs.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MZvWWE57hkE/
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