Oracle has announced that it plans to acquire Apiary, a startup that makes tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) for cloud software. Financial details were not immediately ...

In a ruling in the Oracle vs. Google case, a San Francisco district court judge says 37 of Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable. Oracle plans to appeal the ruling.

Oracle announces its Oracle API Platform Cloud Service made up of Apiary’s API-first design & governance capabilities, and Oracle’s API management features.

Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API ...

With its Cloud Resource Model API, Oracle joins Red Hat and Rackspace in offering a set of standard interfaces for building a cloud stack ...

Can application programming interfaces be copyrighted? The Oracle vs Google jury was instructed to rule as if they could be copyrighted, but the final call, and the fate of programming as we know ...

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial Thursday was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs.

Ninety-seven percent of the source code in the API packages is different; it's only the three percent that overlaps that formed the heart of Oracle's copyright claim. That three percent included ...

The Oracle Cloud API will offer a set of standard interfaces for building a cloud stack Joining a number of other vendors and multi-vendor initiatives in the race to standardize cloud computing ...

And Oracle has for years argued that using an API is unrelated to reimplementation and not an infringement of copyright (or else every app developer using Java would infringe).