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Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly. Firebase currently has almost 110,000 registered developers on its platform and the Firebase team says that the service will continue to work as before and remain platform-agnostic.
Firebase, which launched about three years ago, says that joining Google will allow it to scale its service dramatically. “With Google’s engineering talent, resources and technical infrastructure, we’ll be able to do much more, much faster,” the team writes. In addition, the Firebase team believes that its mission is complementary to Google’s. Thanks to the acquisition, Google’s customers will be able to write apps faster and Firebase’s users will gain access to Google’s infrastructure.
For Google, this acquisition mostly seems to be about technology and talent, but it will also introduce Firebase’s 100,000 developers to its Cloud Platform.
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