Apple acquired geolocation startup Spotsetter

In the past few years, Apple is paying close attention to the improvement of its own mapping service. According to TechCrunch, This weekend Corporation acquired a startup Spotsetter, which allows users to search for various institutions based on friends recommendations.

Spotsetter very similar to FoursquareBut has more functions. For example, the service can pull information from social networks, including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Features include not less popular Yelp and TripAdvisor, to use more information than the one you can tell your friends.

It turns out that Spotsetter - very serious aggregator of information on institutions that can seriously compete with Foursquare.

That these opportunities are expected to be integrated into Apple cards are for the October eventDedicated to the release iWatch.

Traditionally, after the purchase of a startup, Apple demanded that their new employees to remove their software from the App Store and Android Market. More recently, a similar situation It occurred with the developer Testflight, whose product was integrated in iOS 8.

Interesting fact: the founders Spotsetter - former Google employees who worked on the signature cards for the search giant.