Facebook's Parse Grows 25% Month-Over-Month To 100K Apps Since Acquisition

Parse, the other big acquisition outside of Instagram that Facebook has given a fair bit of autonomy to, has grown about 25 percent month-over-month and now services 100,000 apps. Around when the deal closed for roughly $85 million excluding retention and bonuses at the end of April, Parse had about 80,000 apps. (In fact, on the day the deal was announced, the company said it had 60,000 apps.) The company says three factors have helped with the growth: market demand for app infrastructure is ris...