From securityaffairs.com
Uber uses APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to connect with third-party services such as Google Maps and Twilio, which helps to improve the user experience; Salesforce provides APIs that allow developers to build custom applications on top of their platform, which has helped to drive innovation and collaboration; and Stripe provides APIs that enable businesses to accept payments online, which has helped to drive revenue growth.
Because APIs are pieces of software that allow different software applications to communicate, interact, and share data with each other, companies everywhere can take advantage of them to quickly prototype and create new products (increasing productivity), enable companies to introduce new products and technologies with fewer resources and less time (driving innovation), and allow companies to extract their data from software, web pages, and cloud storage (improving business intelligence).