Report: Apple Buys Spotsetter, a Location Recommendation App

Apple has reportedly made another acquisition that could help improve its mapping service.

TechCrunch reports that Apple has acquired Spotsetter, a small startup that was founded in 2011 and developed an app for recommending places and activities to users based in part on their friends' activity. Terms of the deal were not included, but it reportedly closed last week.

Apple did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

Spotsetter announced in a blog post last week that its app was shutting down. "We still have big dreams for personalized search for places and look forward to seeing great progress in this area," Johnny Lee, cofounder of Spotsetter, wrote in the post. Read more...