25/04/2013
Facebook acquired Parse, the popular suite of tools for mobile and web app developers. The acquisition is marking Facebook's entry into a new business category: paid tools and services for developing mobile apps.
Founded by a small group of seasoned Googlers and Y Combinator alumnus, Parse built a set of useful tools for backend mobile developers. They originally called their back-end service, the "Heroku", they offer services that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity logins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud.
"I don't think any of the other conversations created anywhere near the excitement level that we had for Facebook," said Parse CEO and co-founder Ilya Sukhar in an interview.