Glancee Service is Facebook's New Acquisition

Large Internet companies continue to buy less significant competitors, as well as services that complement the basic functionality of certain products of the buyer company. Not so long ago, Facebook acquired Instagram’s social photo service for $ 1 billion. Yesterday it became known about another acquisition of Facebook - the social geological service Glancee.

This "social discovery" service allows you to search for users near you that might interest you (among users who are registered on Facebook). Actually, Glancee is a kind of add-on over a social network, designed as an application for Facebook. The criteria for “interest” are different - these are common acquaintances, and common interests, and the distance to a potential acquaintance. This service has already become quite popular, well, and its leadership liked the leadership of social network No. 1. So Facebook acquired Glancee, and probably did not fail.

It is worth noting that the purchased service began work in 2010, and according to the founders, the purpose of the service is to bring together the digital and real world. Glancee has helped many users find interesting friends. And after all, there are a lot of people who may be of interest to us, and we - to them. It is worth recalling the story told by the head of the dating club from Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears. Remember, the club met and later married a guy and a girl from the same porch who saw each other only in the club?

And Glancee allows you to do without a club - the only condition for the service to work is to register a user on Facebook. The development team from Glancee will continue to work on the social network. The amount of the transaction, unfortunately, is unknown.

Via CNET