{"id":49355,"date":"2012-05-07T10:40:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49355"},"modified":"2012-05-07T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T09:05:11","slug":"facebook-grabs-mobile-location-app-glancee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49355-facebook-grabs-mobile-location-app-glancee.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook grabs mobile location app Glancee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> have acquired the &#8220;social discovery&#8221; app <a title=\"Glancee\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/428875-Glancee\">Glancee<\/a> in an effort to boost Facebook&#8217;s mobile portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Glancee is a mobile-based app which generates a list to discover the locations of other Glancee users, while linking users with similar preferences and likes.<\/p>\n<p>Users can then strike up an online chat after finding people with common interests.<\/p>\n<p>A benefit of Glancee is that it is currently cross-platform, as opposed to Highlight &#8211; a similar app &#8211; which is exclusive to iOS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to confirm that Facebook has acquired Glancee. The acquisition closed today. We can&#8217;t wait for co-founders Andrea, Alberto, and Gabriel to join the Facebook team to work on products that help people discover new places and share them with friends,&#8221; Facebook representatives said via statement.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also recently acquired <a title=\"Instagram\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/412033-Instagram\">Instagram<\/a>, a photo-sharing app, in a $1 billion deal.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2404024,00.asp\">PC Mag<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook pads its mobile offering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":48486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11405,161,11401,11403],"class_list":["post-49355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-facebook","tag-glancee","tag-social-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49385,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49355\/revisions\/49385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}