Flurry Acquires Startup Trestle To Power AppCloud, Its New Mobile Backend Service
Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing.... ? Learn More Flurry just announced that it’s getting into the mobile app infrastructure business with a new service called Flurry AppCloud. To make that happen, the company acquired a mobile startup called Trestle. The terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, but Flurry’s vice president of marketing Peter Farago says “all Trestle employees happily stayed on and form the core team driving Flurry AppCloud forward.” Why acquire this company in particular? Farago says it’s because, like Flurry itself, the Trestle team started out as app developers. He also pointed to the engineering talent and platform, and he says their vie...