UPDATED 07:00 EDT / OCTOBER 22 2014

Firebase founders James Tamplin and Ossama Alami NEWS

Google buys Firebase to add real-time sync & store capabilities to its Cloud Platform

Firebase founders  James Tamplin and Ossama Alami

Firebase founders James Tamplin and Ossama Alami

Google has acquired backend-as-a-service startup Firebase, maker of a development platform for building Android and iOS apps that can store and sync data in real time.

Firebase, which counts some 110,000 registered users, will be integrated with Google’s Cloud Platform but will remain platform-agnostic.

The most immediate benefit of the deal is that Firebase will be able to scale its services dramatically. “With Google’s engineering talent, resources and technical infrastructure, we’ll be able to do much more, much faster,” it says in the company blog. Firbase says its mission complements Google’s, as both companies strive to “help developers create extraordinary experiences” for everyone else.

The deal mainly appears to be  talent grab for Google, although it has the added bonus of introducing Firebase’s 100,000 developers to Google Cloud Platform. Even though the acquisition was just announced, Google is planning to introduce new Firebase features at its Google Cloud Platform Live event on November 4.

This is the third acquisition for Google’s Cloud Platform this year. The search giant snapped up the monitoring service Stackdriver in May of this year, before adding visual effects rendering service Zync to its Cloud Platform last August.


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