Today, Codecademy launched a partnership with SendGrid and nine other companies to help novice developers learn how to leverage APIs to create new projects, sites, and apps. SendGrid has always been dedicated to making developers’ lives easier with flexible, well-documented APIs. With the launch of Codecademy’s API lessons, learning to integrate with SendGrid has become even easier. Now, new developers can get a step by step tutorial on how to send email with SendGrid without having to just rely on our documentation. Codecademy has been an amazing resource for people to learn the basics of programming, and the addition of…
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As reported by GigaOm yesterday, we announced our latest integrations with leading mobile-backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) platforms Parse, StackMob and Windows Azure Mobile Services. These integrations will now make it easier for more mobile developers to build email delivery and alerts into their applications without having to worry about the details of their infrastructure. Last week, we also announced tie ins to the popular Twilio APIs that enable SMS text and voice integration into mobile apps. Our MBaaS integrations are part of our ongoing strategy to make our service broadly available, easy to access and simple to deploy, regardless of what cloud…
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We are excited to announce that we have teamed with Twilio, the leader in cloud telecommunication tools, to provide our enterprise customers with a complete messaging platform. Now our enterprise customers will be able to send SMS, voicemails, and push notifications as well as transactional and marketing emails. This is certainly not the first time we have worked closely with Twilio. Together we have sponsored countless hackdays and organized over a dozen API HackDays along with Mashery and Spotify over the past two years. Recently, we teamed with them to sponsor the “Doer Express” to help developers in the New…
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Two weeks ago, SendGrid opened a new office in Denver just in time for the first annual Denver Startup Week. In the wake of the successful celebration of Denver’s entrepreneurs, people are beginning to ask, could Denver become the next Silicon Valley? With hot start-ups like Uber, Full Contact, iTriage, Pivotal Labs, and ReadyTalk having already set up shop in Denver, SendGrid arrives at a time where the startup community is reaching critical mass. “It’s that density that makes places in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, or Boulder or Cambridge work,” said SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin. “With Denver, we’d love to…
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Today SendGrid is excited to announce our new and improved documentation! Some of the highlights of the new system are: Quicker load times Improved navigation and organization More relevant search results Increased legibility Cleaner presentation of code samples Ability to toggle between JSON and XML examples The new system will allow us to collaborate on updates and changes much more quickly, and we hope that the changes will allow developers to find what they need quicker than before. We’d love to hear your feedback on how you like the changes or what we can do to make things better, so…
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A new study by FireEye, an email and web threat protection company, found that cybercriminals are getting smarter in their attempts to target and infect corporate systems with the number of infections rising by 225% from 2H 2011 to 1H 2012. Their study shows: Malware has significantly increased bypassing traditional security measures. While healthcare and energy/utilities are particularly susceptible, the technology sector continues to be the most targeted. Spear-phishing emails that contain malicious links and attachments are the primary channel for attacks enjoying a 56% increase in their success rates. Cybercriminals are using limited-use domains as well as…
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Earlier this year, we met the folks at the Application Developers Alliance, and we were immediately stoked about their mission: “We are a non-profit industry group founded to serve developers, the people who power and expand the world through software. We work to ensure that developers have the tools, network, and policy environment they need to innovate. We champion the work that developers do through every channel open to us.“ So stoked, we were, that we decided to partner up with them and do our part to help them achieve this goal, by offering our services to their members at a discounted…
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