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"Hot on the heels of its Mobile Developer Conference, Facebook today announced its intentions to buy cloud-based app development service Parse, a company with which the site has collaborated in the past. According to a post on Facebook's Developers blog, the purchase will go a ways toward helping devs, \"rapidly build apps that span mobile platforms and devices.\" The acquisition will bring a number of cloud-based tools like data storage, user management and notifications to Facebook developers. For each company's take on the news, check out the source links below. We also spoke to a Facebook spokesperson, who told us, \"This is an acquisition, not a talent deal.\" As for financial terms, they wouldn't say."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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