Groupon has acquired Ditto.me.
Ditto.me is a mobile app to help users get quick recommendations about restaurants and movies. the business is just one year old. The acquisition was announced on the Ditto.me blog. Terms of the deal were not announced.
The company said, “We can’t reveal what we’ll be working on at Groupon but we are excited to give it 100% – to enable this, we’ll be winding down Ditto. On April 30th we’ll switch off the service and remove the app from Apple’s and Nokia’s stores*. We think you’ll love what we and Groupon dream up next.”
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