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I wonder if Firebase will be next? They were acquired by Google in 2014. However they also acquired Divshot to join the Firebase team in 2015 which indicates they at least intended to continue with it then. Firebase does at least make more sense as part of Google's cloud services division rather than at Facebook.

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I think Firebase's position is a bit more defensible -- Google has done well to ingratiate Firebase as a backend for angular apps.

The news i have heard from various googlers is, `GOOG acquired Firebase because a project started using Firebase as backend and grew very fast and they didn't want to migrate and just acquired FireBase`.

This is not even remotely true.

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Firebase.

Sigh. There should be a Snopes for Hacker News.

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