Facebook buys start-up "community discovery", Glancee

The community site Facebook, on the verge of its IPO, made ​​a new acquisition with Glancee, a start-up to help mobile users to find people sharing their interests and in the vicinity.

"We are very pleased to announce that Facebook bought Glancee and we joined the team in Menlo Park (home of Facebook, ed) to build great products for over 900 million Facebook users" have officials said Monday Glancee on the website of their company, founded in 2010.

No financial details were provided on the operation, which may be primarily intended to secure the services of promising entrepreneurs, as is often the case for acquisitions of start-ups in the middle of Silicon Valley.

The application Glancee disappeared from the online application store from Apple, the AppStore.

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