Thursday 24 April 2014

Facebook enters the fitness arena by snapping up Moves app

Facebook enters the fitness arena by snapping up Moves app

Virtual reality wasn't enough to satisfy Facebook's ambitions - the social network has just announced that it's bought fitness-tracking app Moves.


Moves logs your daily activites using your smartphone, handily keeping track of when you've stopped for lunch, work etc.


Facebook clearly sees that fitness is the area to get in on right now, and the crew behind Moves are now joining Zuckerberg in the big blue.


Commingle


In a statement, Moves said that it's moving to Facebook "to work on building and improving" products and services "with a shared mission of supporting simple, efficient tools for more than a billion people."


We're told that Moves will contine to operate as a standalone app. As for privacy champions, don't fear - Moves says that it won't "commingle" data with Facebook.


So that's Whatsapp, Instagram, Oculus and now Moves. Who's next?

















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