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.

With plenty of revenue from all those desktop web games, how will Facebook translate that as users access social media and games increasingly from their mobile? The acquisition of Parse whose mobile ...

Facebook has purchased Parse, a service that provides a cloud-based set of mobile services and development tools. This news comes on the heels of last week's Mobile Developer Conference where Facebook ...

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 Inc. has officially closed its Parse mobile development platform some 12 months after announcing that it intended to do so. Parse, which was used by developers to build mobile applications ...

Believe it or not, Facebook is much more than a social network. It's an advertising company, a search company, a discovery company, and increasingly, an engineering company. It's quickly becoming ...

Charity Majors, Systems Engineer at Parse, discussed the company’s mobile back-end as a service offering that has recently been acquired by Facebook with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, ...