Mozilla Buys Bookmarking App Pocket

Mozilla on Monday announced information technology has caused Read It Later, developers of the popular bookmarking service Pocket, for an undisclosed sum. Mozilla said the transaction represents its commencement strategic acquisition.

For the browser maker, the buy is all about increasing its presence on mobile devices. Pocket boasts 10 one thousand thousand unique monthly agile users on iOS, Android, and the Web. To date, those users have saved more than 3 billion pieces of content using the service.

Pocket will now operate as a Mozilla subsidiary, alongside Firefox, every bit it focuses on "promoting the discovery and accessibility of loftier quality web content," Mozilla'southward Denelle Dixon-Thayer wrote in a blog mail. Mozilla is also relying on Pocket'due south team and applied science to accelerate its Context Graph initiative to build a "recommender system" for the Web.

"Pocket provides people with the tools they need to engage with and share content on their own terms independent of hardware platform or content silo, for a safer, more empowered and independent online experience," Mozilla CEO Chris Beard said in a argument.

The conquering spun out of a partnership to build Pocket into Firefox. The integration, launched in June 2022, brought a Pocket button to the Firefox toolbar that lets you save content for later. Mozilla'southward Denelle Dixon-Thayer said that the companies "developed a shared vision" over the past year while working together on the integration.

"We look forwards to working more closely together to back up the ongoing growth of Pocket and to create peachy new products that people love in support of our shared mission," Pocket CEO Nate Weiner said in a statement.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'southward expert on fitness and smart domicile products. Pedagogy yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of continued health products including fettle trackers, centre charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela besides tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.