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Facebook owns its own infrastructure. When Facebook acquired Parse, it could have dominated bottoms up developer cloud. Instead, Facebook mysteriously killed the popular cloud service.

Could this possibly have been because Mark Zuckerberg is good friends with Bill Gates, who has significant ownership in Facebook via Microsoft, which owns a competing cloud provider?

If so, this would constitute anticompetitive action involving Microsoft and Facebook.

Related episodes:

Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 1) With Charity Majors

Facebook Parse Acquisition (Part 2) With Ilya Sukhar

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