Microsoft has acquired Apiphany—a leading API management delivery platform._ Steve Martin, general manager of Windows Azure Business and Marketing stated in a blog post: While there is nothing new about app extensibility, cloud computing has rapidly accelerated the use cases for extensibility which has increased the value of the APIs. As you might expect, with expansion and increased value, comes additional work to expose APIs reliably, securely and at scale._ Our newly acquired API management services provide businesses of any size the tools they need to expose particular endpoints while selectively gating access to more sensitive data and services. _ We look forward to surfacing API management services within Windows Azure and providing our customers with the technology they need to grow their API ecosystem very soon._ With the acquisition Apiphany has shut down their service._ Here is a blog post they penned in December of 2012:_ The Apiphany platform is a native cloud solution, meaning it’s built on top of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud operating system. This architecture enables...

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