Pocket comes full circle as it becomes part of Mozilla
With a user base of 22 million and 2 billion saved items, Pocket, the mobile app that allows you to read your saved items leisurely, is now part of Mozilla. Read on for more details about Mozilla’s first acquisition!
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With a user base of 22 million and 2 billion saved items, Pocket, the mobile app that allows you to read your saved items leisurely, is now part of Mozilla. In an open letter, Pocket’s CEO/Founder Nate Weiner talked about humble origins of Pocket, which started off as a Firefox add-on. Over the last 9 years or so, Pocket evolved its platform to include mobile devices, enabling “enables people to save, share, and consume the content worthy of their time and attention.” Pocket wanted people to spend time reading quality content, “no matter how noisy it gets.”
By joining forces with Mozilla, CEO Weiner believes the company will continue to grow by leveraging on the global reach of Mozilla, as well as the latter's deep resources to help make Pocket even better. As a result, Pocket will exist as a “wholly-owned, independent subsidiary of Mozilla Corporation.” The roadmap for Pocket remains unchanged as CEO Weiner promises exciting product updates in the “coming months.”
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On the grand scale, Pocket will be part of Mozilla’s product portfolio and under the latter’s fold, Pocket will “accelerate” Mozilla’s Context Graph Initiative and its goal is to help people locate information based on “their current context.”
(Source: Pocket, Mozilla (1), (2))
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