INTERNATIONAL NEWS - An app that encourages teens to be nice to each other has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed fee.
The app - called tbh, meaning "to be honest" - is just nine weeks old, but had already been downloaded 5 million times.
The app's creators said it will remain a standalone program but will now have more resources thanks to Facebook.
"We were compelled by the ways they could help us realise tbh’s vision and bring it to more people," tbh said.
According to start-up news site TechCrunch, the deal was for "less than $100m", and tbh's four person team would become Facebook employees.
Mimicking Facebook's early growth - where it was only available in a handful of colleges for a short time, the makers of tbh only made the app available to users in certain states. Word of mouth would spread at schools as the app was enabled.
