application software

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Software stocks have taken a beating in recent months amid some skepticism in the market over whether AI investments will pay off—or perhaps that AI itself will eventually make application software obsolete.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Application programming interface, or API, is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.

From Reuters • Feb. 11, 2022

Amazon said Tuesday the outage was related to network devices and linked to application programming interface, or API, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

According to the Labor Department, the top three H-1B occupations are computer systems analysts, application software developers and computer programmers — and those three account for roughly half of the department’s H-1B certifications.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2017

Another facet of an operating system is application software: programs that help get work done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John