Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it's taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps ...

At Firebase Summit, Google expanded Firebase Hosting to support many new web frameworks, opened a way to make custom "Extensions," and more.

Google today has acquired the app-hosting service Divshot and will fold it into its cloud services provider Firebase, Divshot cofounder Michael Bleigh accounted in a blog post. Divshot is a ...