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Title: Facebook, the fitness tracker: The social network buys Moves to see your activity Post by: HCK on April 27, 2014, 02:00:20 pm Facebook, the fitness tracker: The social network buys Moves to see your activity
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Facebook just bought a popular app. Continuing the spending spree that started with messaging service WhatsApp (http://www.techhive.com/article/2099442/whatsapp-at-facebook-zuck-snags-popular-messaging-app-for-16-billion.html) and virtual reality headset makers Oculus VR (http://www.techhive.com/article/2111880/facebook-s-oculus-buy-is-a-bet-on-the-future-of-computing.html), Facebook added Moves (http://www.moves-app.com/), a popular activity-tracking app for iOS and Android, to its portfolio.</p><p>Facebook didn’t say how much it paid for the app, but indicated it was far, far less than the $19 billion and $2 billion it paid for WhatsApp and Oculus, respectively. But what on Earth will Facebook do with a fitness app?</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2146993/facebook-the-fitness-tracker-the-social-network-buys-moves-to-see-your-activity.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Facebook, the fitness tracker: The social network buys Moves to see your activity (http://www.macworld.com/article/2146993/facebook-the-fitness-tracker-the-social-network-buys-moves-to-see-your-activity.html#tk.rss_all) |