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

That’s because of a secret sauce that isn’t edible, but ethereal—Dodo IS, a proprietary mix of application software and analytics stored in the cloud.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2019

"Lotus 1-2-3" also bears a singular distinction in the digital underground: it's probably the most pirated piece of application software in world history.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce