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{{Short description|Defunct company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Parse, Inc.
| location_city = [[Menlo Park, California]], U.S.
| founder = {{unbulleted list|[[Tikhon Bernstam]]|Ilya Sukhar|Kevin Lacker|James Yu}}
| parent = [[Facebook, Inc.]]
| homepage = {{URL|http://parseplatformparse.orgcom/}}
| founded = {{Start date|2011|06|01}}
| fate = Defunct, 2016
}}
 
'''Parse, Inc.''' was a [[mobilecompany backendacquired asby a[[Meta servicePlatforms|Meta]] platform(then originally developed by the provider Parse, Inc. The company was acquired bynamed Facebook) in 2013 and shut down in January 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Facebook Parse now lets you easily deploy mobile apps to Heroku|url = https://venturebeat.com/2015/10/22/facebook-parse-now-lets-you-easily-deploy-apps-to-heroku/|website = VentureBeat|accessdate = 2015-11-14|last = Novet|first = Jordan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Miners|first=Zach|title=Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business|url=https://www.cio.com/article/2386383/facebook-buys-parse--gets-into-development-tools-business.html}}</ref> They developed a [[MBaaS]] platform, Parse. Following the announcement in 2016 of the impending shutdown, the platform was subsequently [[open sourced]].
 
SinceAfter the hosted service was shut down, Parsethe open Platformsource hasversion growngrew into an open source community with its own blog, documentation, and community forum.
 
== History ==
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[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]] named Parse one of the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last=McCorvey|first=J.J.|title=Most Innovative Companies 2013|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2013/github-parse|publisher=Fast Company|access-date=2015-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926135146/http://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/2013/github-parse|archive-date=2015-09-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
[[Facebook, Inc.|Facebook]] acquired the firm for $85 million in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rusli|first=Evelyn|title=Facebook to Buy Mobile Startup Parse in Cash-and-Stock Deal|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323789704578445311737656822|publisher=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Cutler|first=Kim-Mai|title=Facebook Buys Parse To Offer Mobile Development Tools As Its First Paid B2B Service|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/facebook-parse/|publisher=Techcrunch}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hickey|first=Matt|title=Facebook Buys Mobile App Platform Parse|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthickey/2013/04/25/facebook-buys-mobile-app-platform-parse/|work=Forbes|accessdate=25 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Purdy|first=Doug|title=Welcoming Parse to Facebook|url=https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/04/25/welcoming-parse-to-facebook/|work=Facebook|publisher=Facebook blog}}</ref>
 
In 2014, Parse was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Devs have built 500K apps on Facebook's Parse, with Asia seeing 90% growth in first half of 2014|url = https://venturebeat.com/2014/12/01/facebook-parse-asia/|website = VentureBeat|accessdate = 2015-11-14|last = Novet|first = Jordan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Facebook Buys Its Way Into the Heart of the App World|url = https://www.wired.com/2013/09/facebook-and-parse/|website = Wired|publisher = |accessdate = 2015-11-14|language = en-US|last = Metz|first = Cade}}</ref>
 
On 28 January 2016, Facebook Openopen Sourcedsourced Parse Platform<ref>{{Cite web| title = Parse Platform
| url = https://parseplatform.org/}}</ref> and announced that it will close its Parse Hosting Service,<ref>{{Cite web| title = Facebook's Parse May Be Dead But It Continues To Live Within The FOSS Community
| url = https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2016/01/29/facebooks-parse-may-be-dead-but-it-continues-to-live-within-the-foss-community/#5e8c01a57d2c}}</ref> with services effectively shutting down on 28 January 2017.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Moving On
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* {{Official website|http://parseplatform.org/}}
 
[[Category:FacebookMeta Platforms acquisitions]]
[[Category:2013 mergers and acquisitions]]
 
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