Facebook acquires Move

Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone ‘Moves,‘ the startup announced via a blog post.

The company’s founders say that the Moves crew will join Facebook’s team to “work on building and improving their products and services” and that the Moves app will continue to operate on its own as a standalone experience.

Moves is developed and run by ProtoGeo Oy. The company was founded in Jan 2012 in Helsinki, Finland, to develop a pioneering all-day activity diary for smartphones. Launched in Jan 2013, and called by Apple as ‘surprise hit’, Moves has been downloaded 4 million times to date for iPhone and Android phones.

According to the company's post, Moves "will continue to operate as a standalone app, and there are no plans to change that or commingle data with Facebook".