Facebook has acquired mobile backend-as-a-service startup Parse in a move that marks its first foray into paid business-to-business services and an emphasis on mobile development.

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Facebook will be ending its Parse platform a year from today. With over 600,000 apps already built on top of it, developers' migrations to other platforms will not be a quiet one.