Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, CrossFit, and eating vegan. Her jokes are often in poor taste, but her articles are not. Parse is simultaneously shooting ...

Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end infrastructure, the companies announced Thursday.

At Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, Parse CEO and co-founder Ilya Sukhar announced that the company is significantly lowering its prices for developers. Until now, Parse offered different ...

Some developers got very angry and threatened to leave mobile app backend platform Parse when it was bought by Facebook yesterday. Hoping to capitalize, competitor StackMob has since released a Parse ...

Facebook on Thursday evening announced it has acquired mobile startup Parse, which provides cloud-based tools and services for developers. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, ...

Facebook, citing efforts to make it easier for app developers to integrate their services with the social network, said it is acquiring Parse, an app-support software company. Facebook did not ...

Developers building apps on top of Facebook’s Parse can now rely on built-in crash reporting, letting them minimize the use of third-party tools. They’ll also for the first time be able to build iOS ...

With the massive growth of mobile apps, many developers are looking for platforms to help them quickly build their apps. Many app developers are moving to hosted services rather than building or ...

SAN FRANCISCO — “Parse is everywhere,” said Parse CPO James Yu at the company’s developer event today. And for Parse, “everywhere” means a community of developers that’s growing by thousands every ...

Parse, a cloud services company that provides developers tools to use a unified back-end for their apps, announced that Facebook acquired it today. Facebook confirmed the purchase on its own blog.