| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.05.2024 | Android Studio to get Gemini 1.5 Pro upgrade, Gemini code suggestions and crash reporting | Join gaming leaders live this May 20-21 in Los Angeles to examine the strategies needed to adapt and excel in an ever evolving landscape, featuring insights from leading voices and thought leaders in the industry. Register here.
Google’s An... |
| 15.02.2022 | Shortwave | Email is one of the greatest communication tools ever invented – a universal, public system that enables written communication among all people, anywhere on the planet. It can handle simple, short messages and rich content of all kinds. It ... |
| 14.12.2016 | Designer News Clone (Part 2): Implementing Firebase security | A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I built a Designer News clone with AngularJS and Firebase. A lot of the feedback I received was about how the application could be secure because it is written purely with front-end code. So this week, I t... |
| 08.12.2016 | Building a Designer News clone with AngularJS and Firebase | I recently discovered Firebase, and it’s changed everything.
If you haven’t heard of it, Firebase is a platform that allows you to store and sync data in realtime. It essentially gives you the functionality of a backend database, but presen... |
| 18.05.2016 | Google turns Firebase into its unified platform for mobile developers | Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014, it already offered developers a dedicated platform and SDK for building mobile apps; today it is greatl... |
| 02.02.2016 | Batch Now Integrates With Firebase To Create A Parse Alternative | Following Facebook’s shutdown of Parse, many mobile app developers are looking for alternatives. Google’s Firebase is among the most popular ones. It’s a solid back-end-as-a-service that can store and sync data instantly with your apps. But... |
| 29.01.2016 | 15 alternatives to Facebook’s Parse | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Sh*t happens. Sometimes cloud services and applic... |
| 29.01.2016 | 15 alternatives to Facebook’s Parse | Sh*t happens. Sometimes cloud services and applications shut down. Yesterday, Facebook announced that it would be closing up Parse, the mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) that it acquired in 2013 for a reported $85 million.
Customers do ha... |
| 29.01.2016 | What alternatives to Parse exist, now that it is shutting down? | Parse has gone the way of the Dodo.
Facebook acqui-hired the MBaaS (mobile backend as a service) company in April 2013, and last night, Parse sent an email to all its users that it will be folding up the service between now and January 28, ... |
| 13.10.2015 | Google acquires team and tech from Web app builder Divshot | The Divshot team will be joining Firebase, and Divsot products will shut down in December
Google is in a constant battle with Amazon and Microsoft to get developers onto its platform.
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are strong compe... |
| 13.10.2015 | Google buys app-hosting service Divshot, will shut it down on December 14 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google is acquiring a platform for building mobil... |
| 13.10.2015 | Google buys app-hosting service Divshot, will shut it down on December 14 | Google is acquiring a platform for building mobile and web applications called Divshot and folding it into its cloud services provider, Firebase.
Divshot will shut down operations on December 14, 2015.
“Moving forward the team will be fully... |
| 13.10.2015 | Google Acquires Divshot To Join Its Firebase Team, Will Shut Down In December | Google has acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web-hosting platform that it says is “tailored for performance and developer productivity.”
It will shut down on December 14, 2015, and will be joining the Firebase team. Google acquired Firebase last O... |
| 08.04.2015 | Video Hackday | Some friends of mine are organizing a video hack day in NYC on Saturday May 9th. If you like to hack on video and have been looking for an excuse to spend some time on that thing you’ve been wanting to build, this is your opportunity.
Here ... |
| 25.03.2015 | More great news: Realm obtains $20 million investment | Realm, a Danish startup that has created an innovative mobile database, has received an investment round of $20 million led by Khosla Ventures and Scale Venture Partners.
Realm, formerly known as TightDB, has created a unique mobile databa... |
| 24.10.2014 | Google Acquires Firebase | Firebase, a San Francisco, CA-based platform that allows developers to build real-time, collaborative apps via an API, has been acquired by Google (GOOG).
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Led by CEO James Tamplin and Andrew ... |
| 22.10.2014 | Google takes Firebase under its wing in latest cloud acquisition | Firebase, a company helping developers to produce apps and services that store and sync data in realtime, is the latest Google acquisition. With a user base of 110,000 developers three-year-old Firebase announced that it is joining Google a... |
| 22.10.2014 | Firebase | Yesterday our portfolio company Firebase was acquired by Google. We invested in Firebase in the summer of last year and Albert wrote this post talking about the investment.
Firebase makes a backend that allows developers to store and sync t... |
| 22.10.2014 | Twitter Unveils Its New Developer Toolkit—Fabric | Twitter is making its play for developers.
At its first-ever Flight developer conference, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced a new developer toolkit aimed at helping developers build and make money off applications on the Twitter platform. ... |
| 21.10.2014 | Google beefs up Cloud Platform with Firebase purchase | Firebase is a cloud service designed to power and store app data in real-time
Google has made it clear in the past that it wants to take on Amazon Web Services by luring as many developers as it can onto its cloud platform. It has already s... |
| 21.10.2014 | Google buys Firebase, gaining real-time database savvy | Google, a tech giant that’s been growing its public cloud capabilities, said today that it’s acquired hot real-time backend database startup, Firebase. The startup’s technology will be incorporated into Google’s cloud.
“If you’re already a ... |
| 21.10.2014 | Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps | 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 develope... |
| 21.10.2014 | Google buys Firebase, gaining real-time database savvy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google, a tech giant that’s been growing its publ... |
| 13.10.2014 | Heroku founder: Y Combinator developer tools request is a very big deal | While it might not seem so to outsiders, Y Combinator’s new Developer Tools Request for Startups (RFS) is a big deal. (Editor’s note: The deadline to apply is tomorrow.) This is a request from one of the biggest tech incubators for startups... |
| 07.10.2014 | Hacker News API | Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API. We’ve partnered up with Firebase (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real time, which should be a huge improvement for developers who had to rely on scrapi... |
| 14.05.2014 | Firebase | Last year, USV invested in Firebase. Albert wrote a blog post about Firebase back when we invested.
Yesterday Firebase announced a hosted version of their product so you don’t have to use it alongside S3 or some other host.
I wandered by Ha... |
| 13.05.2014 | Firebase adds hosting to make app development even easier | San Francisco startup Firebase already made a big contribution to developers’ lives when it devised a real-time database — one less hard thing to build. But Firebase thinks developers still have too much to worry about. They shouldn’t need ... |
| 13.05.2014 | Firebase Adds Web Hosting To Its Database Platform | Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it’s taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps. Firebase Hosting is meant to be a productio... |
| 17.02.2014 | DeveloperWeek organizes 25-plus dev events in one week | This sponsored post is produced by Data 2.0.
Tech companies Facebook, Microsoft, Rackspace and Google are among those headlining or hosting developer events for the second annual DeveloperWeek Conference & Festival 2014 in downtown San ... |
| 02.12.2013 | Firebase (YC S11) adds Zapier (YC S12) integration, so your apps can connect with other apps in realtime | Firebase, a real-time back-end service for managing apps, has added an integration with Zapier, a platform for connecting services such as SendMail, Twitter and Twilio. The new integration means developers can connect multiple apps without ... |
| 27.11.2013 | Firebase Adds Zapier Integration, Pairing Real-Time Infrastructure With The Ability To Connect Multiple Apps | Firebase, a real-time back-end service for managing apps, has added an integration with Zapier, a platform for connecting services such as SendMail, Twitter and Twilio. The new integration means developers can connect multiple apps without ... |
| 15.08.2013 | Firebase goes public with real-time backend and enterprise-grade pricing | Firebase, a backend-as-a-service that focuses on serving real-time use cases, has finally launched to the public with a new pricing structure.
“We’re finally mature and ready for primetime,” cofounder James Tamplin told VentureBeat in a cal... |
| 15.08.2013 | Firebase (YC S11) leaves public beta, announces pricing for real-time backend | Firebase, a backend-as-a-service that focuses on serving real-time use cases, has finally launched to the public with a new pricing structure.
“We’re finally mature and ready for primetime,” cofounder James Tamplin told VentureBeat in a ca... |
| 08.07.2013 | How chat-for-Tumblr startup Babblr crushed, then crashed, then rose from the ashes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Every startup wants to absolutely “crush it” righ... |
| 08.07.2013 | How chat-for-Tumblr startup Babblr crushed, then crashed, then rose from the ashes | Every startup wants to absolutely “crush it” right out of the gate. Sometimes, that’s a really, really bad idea.
Like with chat-for-Tumblr startup Babblr.
“Two weeks before we launched, we hit 250,000 sign-ups,” Babblr cofounder Brandon Sow... |
| 21.06.2013 | Firebase Raises $5.6M in Series A Funding | Firebase, a San Francisco-based cloud service that powers collaborative communications in real time, raised $5.6m in Series A funding.
Backers included Union Square Ventures and Flybridge Venture Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Ch... |
| 20.06.2013 | App Infrastructure Startup Firebase Raises $5.6M From Union Square And Flybridge | Firebase, a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers infrastructure for real-time apps, is taking the stage today at GigaOm’s Structure conference, where it’s announcing that it has raised a $5.6 million Series A from Union Square Ventures a... |
| 20.06.2013 | Firebase | Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I have always had mixed feelings about this quote because as an engineer my reaction to something really advanced like self driving... |
| 20.06.2013 | Firebase (YC S11) raises $5.6M Series A from Union Square Ventures and Flybridge | Great news from the Firebase blog today:
We’re thrilled to announce our Series A today!
Firebase exists to help developers build extraordinary experiences. Every day we’re inspired by the things you build, from video sharing services to b... |
| 09.04.2013 | With Firepad, Firebase Adds Real-Time Text Collaboration To Its App Platform | Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module — Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others.
To a consumer, that might not sound v... |
| 09.04.2013 | Firebase (YC S11) launches Firepad, an collaborative editor just like Google Docs that's open source | Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module — Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others.
To a consumer, that might not sound ... |
| 09.04.2013 | Y Combinator Alum Firebase Launches Firepad Collaborative Editor | Today, Y Combinator graduate Firebase launched Firepad, which lets developers add collaborative document editing to their apps with a bit of JavaScript. This open-source tool is already used by Atlassian and Socrates. Similar to Google Docs... |
| 09.04.2013 | Firebase (YC S11) launches Firepad, an collaborative editor just like Google Docs that’s open source | Y Combinator-backed Firebase is expanding the infrastructure that it offers to app developers with its first module — Firepad, a Google Docs-style text editor that allows you to collaborate with others.
To a consumer, that might not sound ... |
| 20.03.2013 | Firebase (YC S11) launches its iOS SDK, brings realtime capabilities to mobile | Today, Firebase hopes to change this with the launch of a mobile SDK bringing its scalable realtime backend platform to iOS. In other words, the company can offload the major engineering challenges to allow resource-constrained developers t... |
| 13.02.2013 | Firebase Opens Its Real-Time App Infrastructure To All Developers | When Y Combinator-backed Firebase first announced its app infrastructure service last April, it saw 4,000 developer sign-ups in the first week and raised a $1.1 million round shortly afterwards. Since then, co-founder James Tamplin said the... |
| 13.02.2013 | Firebase’s scalable backend makes it ’10 times easier’ to build apps | Firebase‘s cofounder James Tamplin wants to make the process of developing an app “10 times easier,” so he built a product that will do the hard work for you.
Launching to the public today, Tamplin’s Firebase provides a backend for develope... |
| 13.02.2013 | Firebase’s scalable backend makes it ’10 times easier’ to build apps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Firebase‘s cofounder James Tamplin wants to make ... |
| 31.12.2012 | 8 of Our Favorite Startup Stories from 2012 | A new year, a clean slate. For many, January 1st symbolizes a reset button- an opportunity to let go of the past and focus on what lies ahead. But before turning all of our attention to 2013, we wanted to reflect on the good to come about i... |
| 20.12.2012 | Firebase (YC S11) releases its Security API, now making secure realtime apps easier to create | Building real-time apps is hard and scaling them is even harder. Firebase takes care of these complexities for you and lets you focus on building your app. Our new security model lets you build secure apps where clients talk directly to Fir... |
| 22.05.2012 | Firebase Raises $1.1M For Real-Time App Infrastructure | Last month, I wrote about Y Combinator-backed Firebase and its ambitious vision to reinvent the infrastructure of real-time apps. Now the company is announcing that some big investors have signed on to that vision, with a $1.1 million round... |
| 03.05.2012 | New Finds At TNW Shows Europe Is Nailing It | European startup conference The Next Web (and now competing blog, hello guys), which took place in Amsterdam last week, was covered in full by seven TNW bloggers who wrote over 30 posts about all major announcements, speeches and competitio... |
| 19.04.2012 | Firebase Aims To Reinvent Real-Time App Infrastructure, And It Already Has 4,000 Sign-Ups | Firebase is one of those startups with an almost crazily big vision — it wants to simplify the development of powerful, real-time apps, to the point where, as co-founder James Tamplin put it, it’s “jettisoning the whole notion of a server e... |
