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.

Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, Firebase set itself up to help developers build collaborative mobile and web apps through an API storing and syncing data in real-time. Up through now, Firebase has ...

Google is announcing today that it’s introducing web support for Firebase Cloud Messaging, a service that lets developers send push notifications for their applications to end users’ devices. This ...

Google will continue to offer Firebase's cloud-based synchronization service. It's a new step to making Google's tech foundation more compelling to programmers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate Coinbase with Firebase to build a real Bitcoin-enabled application. We’ll walk through minting custom Firebase auth tokens, connecting to the Coinbase ...

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 ...