Photo-blending app Dubble is back from the dead Dubble is officially (re)launching today, in v2, after a year-long hiatus off the app store while the team re-engineered the backend and applied some gloss..

Fresh with cash, Anand Sharma's Gyroscope is building the backend to the journey of you Gyroscope founder Anand Sharma seems pretty content when we meet up for a walk to The Mill, a hip cafe known for its $4 toast in San Francisco's NOPA neighborhood. It's a rare sunny day in the city and his startup is growing.His self-tracking platfor Read more ... m with a sleek UI will soon add a genetics and ste...

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Batch Now Integrates With Firebase To Create A Parse Alternative Following Facebook's shutdown of Parse many mobile app developers are looking for alternatives. Google's Firebase is among the most popular ones. It's a solid back-end-as-a-service that can store and sync data instantly with your apps. But the only i Read more ... ssue is that it doesn't support push notifications. Many developers were also using Parse to send push notifications for marketing purposes and more. And yet, Firebase has always shied away from providing a push notification backend. Meet Batch, a push notification backend for mobile app developers. With Batch, you can segment your user base and optimize delivery of push notifications. There are also A/B testing and analytics tools so that you can track the efficiency of your push notifications over time. Batch has built a migration tool so that you can export your Parse data and import them into Batch. And now, you can also find details and examples to integrate Batch ...

Amazon Acquires Elemental Technologies for a Reported $500 Million, In Cash Amazon announced this afternoon that it’s acquiring Elemental Technologies, a backend mobile video service. It’s paying around $500 million in cash for..

Onfleet Raises $2M To Provide Infrastructure For Delivery Apps Between ride-hailing apps, food delivery services, and the random niche services for getting things like massages on-demand, smartphones users in big cities are starting to expect seemingly anything and everything with the tap of a button.While the f Read more ... irst few years of the "Uber for X" trend involved a lot of rebuilding the wheel for startups willing to experiment with the concept. Now, it seems like there's another app delivering cookies or weed launching each week.A large factor contributing to the rise of these on-demand and delivery services is the emergence of a handful of startups offering backend infrastructure suited to the task. One such company is Onfleet, who provides a white-label backend specifically built for the task of coordinating deliveries with a fleet of couriers out in the field.Onfleet facilitates communication between "home base" and couriers, letting drivers know when it's time to pick up another batch of cookies set ...

Treeline Wants To Take The Coding Out Of Building A Backend To a novice programmer (or someone who's taught themselves), few things can seem as intimidating as building the backend to power your dream app.It's got to run fast but efficiently on whatever infrastructure you decide to use. It has to work with an Read more ... y platform you might build a client for. If something goes wrong, it undermines all of the other work you've done to make your customers happy.Y Combinator-backed Treeline is trying to break down that intimidation by stripping the job of building a backend down to its essence: building the pipelines through which data will flow in an application or service."Building the front end of an application is like putting together a house of cards," Treeline co-founder and CEO Mike McNeil told me during an interview today. "You have to keep track of a bunch of parts and make a series of precise moves in order to build something that actually looks ...

SEC bubble teams, Georgetown get critical victories The focus of the bubble in the SEC has been in the football-rich western part of the conference, with Mississippi, LSU and Texas A&M all jockeying for position toward the backend of the field of 68.

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