Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee

A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee.

From the Glancee homepage:

We started Glancee in 2010 with the goal of bringing together the best of your physical and digital worlds. We wanted to make it easy to discover the hidden connections around you, and to meet interesting people. Since then Glancee has connected thousands of people, empowering serendipity and pioneering social discovery.

We are therefore very excited to announce that Facebook has acquired Glancee and that we have joined the team in Menlo Park to build great products for over 900 million Facebook users. We’ve had such a blast connecting people through Glancee, and we truly thank our users for being a part of the Glancee community.

Like competitor app Highlight, Glancee went beyond the checkin and attempted to help users discover other users around them with similar interests.

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