Glance Technologies Voted Best Vancouver Startup by Georgia Straight Readers


VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 04, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Glance Technologies Inc. (“Glance” or the “Company”) (CSE:GET.CN) (OTCQB:GLNNF) (FKT:GJT) is pleased to announce it has been voted Vancouver’s best startup by readers of The Georgia Straight, adding to Glance’s growing list of awards.

Reflecting the full spectrum of culture, cuisine, experiences and people that make Metro Vancouver great, the winners of the 23rd annual Best of Vancouver Readers’ Choice Awards are ranked annually by the readers of Canada’s largest urban weekly.

Glance is proud to be honoured with the top rank in the Best Local Startup category in the 2018 Best of Vancouver Readers’ Choice Awards.  Glance is also proud to share the spotlight with several restaurants and restaurateurs who are part of the Glance Pay community, including:

  • Most Vegan-Friendly Restaurant: The Naam Restaurant (1st place)
  • Best Restaurant Group: Banana Leaf (2nd place)

To learn more about the Glance Pay mobile payment community for merchants and users, visit www.GlancePay.com. For a full list of the 2018 Best of Vancouver Readers’ Choice Awards, visit https://www.straight.com/bov/best-places-in-vancouver.

About the Georgia Straight

The Georgia Straight is Canada’s largest urban weekly that has been covering lifestyle and entertainment news in Metro Vancouver for over 50 years. It holds a circulation of 816,000 unduplicated readers and site visitors to their print and website publications per week.

About Glance Technologies Inc.

Glance owns and operates Glance Pay, a streamlined payment system that revolutionizes how smartphone users choose where to shop, order goods and services, make payments, access digital receipts, redeem digital deals, earn great rewards & interact with merchants. Glance offers targeted in-app marketing, geo-targeted digital coupons, customer feedback, in-merchant messaging and custom rewards programs. The Glance Pay mobile payment system consists of proprietary technology, which includes user apps available for free downloads in iOS (Apple) and Android formats, merchant manager apps, a large-scale technology hosting environment with sophisticated anti-fraud technology and lightning-fast payment processing. Glance is working on a rewards-based cryptocurrency.

For more information about Glance, please go to www.glance.tech.

For more information, contact:

Paola Ashton                                                                          
VP Business Development                                                    
(833) 338-0299
investors@glancepay.com                                                    

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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