Facebook has Gowalla incorporated. With this service, users can have their location disclosure by logging in to “spots”. Gowalla is a competitor of the popular Foursquare. A consideration is not known.
The largest part of the staff of Gowalla will go to the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto to move, including the founder of the service. Gowalla was founded in 2009. The acquisition is still not officially published, and a consideration is not known. A source familiar with the acquisition, explained to CNN, but Facebook would still not respond.
The staff will Facebook start work on the Timeline feature of Facebook. Timeline is the name of the new way to profile pages, where important events of the person prominently displayed. Timeline is gradually being implemented for Facebook users.
Gowalla has fewer users than rival Foursquare and would be the last time, more to profile itself as a travel guide with personal stories. Is unknown or the service in its current form remains the pre-existence.