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This is bad news - Paypal is an incredibly shady business and I dislike them intensely. They have all the power of a bank, but none of the accountability. They can freeze your assets and if you want to complain dial 1-800-talk2robot, like pissing in the wind. I'm sure you've all read the horror stories about Paypal. There certainly isn't a shortage of em.
They're actually a bank in Europe.
I was just looking at Stackmob last week as a potential backend for my next project. I had originally planned on using Parse but with their acquisition, I felt uncertain about their future. With Stackmob going the same route, is there any decent backend I could use reliably?
Any guesses what the sticker price was?
I never really understood what StockMob does/did? Will the service continue?
"By joining PayPal, the StackMob team will maintain its focus on developers and extending innovative mobile technologies that aim to allow consumers to access the rich capabilities of the PayPal global network... We believe that our work at PayPal will make it easier for developers to create seamless payment solutions that span online, mobile, and in-store experiences." I think they're done. They're gonna be joining…
I was just looking at Stackmob last week as a potential backend for my next project. I had originally planned on using Parse but with their acquisition, I felt uncertain about their future. With Stackmob going the same route, is there any decent backend I could use reliably?
You expect something enterprisey if you haven't played around with Azure lately, but you can work entirely in JavaScript on the server-side (powered by Node) and there's good support for iOS, Android, Ruby, Python, etc.
This is bad news - Paypal is an incredibly shady business and I dislike them intensely. They have all the power of a bank, but none of the accountability. They can freeze your assets and if you want to complain dial 1-800-talk2robot, like pissing in the wind. I'm sure you've all read the horror stories about Paypal. There certainly isn't a shortage of em.
They have all the power of a bank, but none of the accountability. They're actually a bank in Europe.
I was just looking at Stackmob last week as a potential backend for my next project. I had originally planned on using Parse but with their acquisition, I felt uncertain about their future. With Stackmob going the same route, is there any decent backend I could use reliably?
Any guesses what the sticker price was?
Since it wasn't disclosed, I'm guessing less than the amount raised. Doesn't seem like something PayPal as a business would be interested in, so it's most likely a talent acquisition.
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Since it wasn't disclosed, I'm guessing less than the amount raised. Doesn't seem like something PayPal as a business would be interested in, so it's most likely a talent acquisition.
A talent acquisition is usually for more than the amount raised. Unless they were really struggling and about to go out of business.
So, while PayPal and StackMob declined to share details on the acquisition price, it doesn’t sound like this was a blockbuster deal. Furthermore, while StackMob had a good run, it doesn’t come as a complete surprise that StackMob struggled in its efforts to reach profitability and scale to the degree it had initially hoped.
It sounds like maybe investors will break even and employees get jobs.
I was just looking at Stackmob last week as a potential backend for my next project. I had originally planned on using Parse but with their acquisition, I felt uncertain about their future. With Stackmob going the same route, is there any decent backend I could use reliably?
Disclaimer: I work in the company behind it. If you have any questions we will be glad to help you out. By the way, the SDKs are Open Source and we are working on a "community" release of the backend for our customers to not be afraid of the vendor-locking.