Google announced Wednesday that it acquired several technology assets from Twitter, most notably its Fabric mobile application development platform.
Other assets going from Twitter to Google are the Crashlytics crash-reporting platform, mobile app analytics tool Answers, SMS login system Digits and development automation system Fastlane.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. According to both companies, the Fabric team will join Google?s Firebase team, and Twitter will continue to maintain Digits during an unspecified transition period.
Fabric vice president of engineering and general manager Rich Paret wrote in a blog post:
When we met the team at Google, we quickly realized that our missions are the same–helping mobile teams build better apps, understand their users and grow their businesses. Fabric and Firebase operate mobile platforms with unique strengths in the market today. We?re excited to combine these platforms together to make the best mobile developer platform in the world for app teams. Fabric customers: There?s no action you need to take in order to keep using these products. You can preview the new terms of use that will apply when the transaction is closed. When the acquisition is complete, Google will begin providing Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers and associated beta products under terms that you can preview. During a transition period, Digits will continue to be maintained by Twitter under its existing terms.
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