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

The bourse operator and its application software provider, Digital Asset, realised that the application required more work than anticipated.

From Reuters • Aug. 3, 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

Next is all the application software that you run on the computer; many of these are also from GNU.

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