Google snaps up Twitter’s Fabric mobile app developer platform

Google has confirmed it is to subsume Twitter’s Fabric mobile app developer platform into its own software empire as part of a swoop for assets, including the Crashlytics crash reporting system, Answers mobile app analytics, Digits SMS login system and FastLane development automation system.
Fabric was introduced by Twitter in 2014 to offer developers an enhanced suite of app development tools, growing swiftly to serve apps reaching 2.5bn users built by 580,000 developers.
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