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Read-it-later app Pocket to shut down its Mac app on August 15th

Mozilla’s Pocket, a popular read-it-later app that lets you save online articles to read when you have more time, announced today it’s retiring its Mac app, Pocket for Mac. The app will be

Read-it-later app Pocket now lets you create article lists

Mozilla-owned read-it-later app Pocket unveiled several new features across platforms, including rolling out the redesigned app to iOS and better article-jumping features for Android. However, the sta

Mozilla revamps its read-it-later app Pocket with new tabs and curated recommendations

Pocket, a popular read-it-later app acquired by Mozilla in 2017, is rolling out two major changes to its mobile reading experience, as it faces new competition from startups like Matter and open sourc

Mozilla expects to generate more than $500M in revenue this year

The Mozilla Foundation today released its financial report for 2020. As usual, this gives us a good picture of the organization’s financial health from a year ago, but for the first time this ye

Firefox’s updated mobile browser promises less clutter, easier access to recent tasks

Alternative mobile browser Firefox today shipped its latest release for iOS and Android with an update aimed at helping users address common issues — like the visual clutter of having too many o

Pocket’s reading app won’t sound so robotic now

Last year, Mozilla made its first acquisition by snatching up Pocket, the Instapaper competitor that helps you save longer articles for later reading. Today, this popular reading app is getting a majo

Pocket’s new iMessage app just made sharing stories via chat a whole lot easier

Pocket, the smart bookmarking and content discovery service that was recently acquired by Mozilla, just launched an iMessage app that is pretty nifty for those who use both services regularly. I&#82

Crunch Report | SpaceX Is Flying Two People Around the Moon

SpaceX is looking to fly two people around the moon and back late next year, Handle is Boston Dynamics' newest robot, Pocket is Mozilla's first acquisition, Uber fires exec for undisclosed harassment

Mozilla pockets Pocket in first acquisition

Mozilla bought content time-shifting app Pocket today for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced simultaneously on their blogs. What started as a handy Firefox plug-in for saving articles you

Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too

But these aren’t the crappy click-bait you see below lots of blog posts. “We’re being very choosy” Pocket founder Nate Weiner tells me. “We don’t want this to becom

Firefox Integrates Pocket, Adds Distraction-Free Reader View

Mozilla's Firefox now features a full integration with the Pocket read-it-later service for saving text and video. In addition, Reader View now offers users a distraction-free reading mode that's simi

Gillmor Gang: Yotifications

The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Alexia Tsotsis, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — react with nervous jokes as all eyes turn to the success of Yo, the single-minded communication app

Facebook Takes Another Crack At Read-It-Later With “Save” Button

Facebook's quest to become a newspaper has seen it launch multiple News Feeds, the standalone Paper app, trending topics, and more. But you're not always able to stop what you're doing and read what y

Pocket Launches ‘Send To Friend’ Feature For One-To-One Sharing As It Hits 35M Saves Per Month

Save for later service Pocket debuted a new feature today, which allows users to quickly send content saved to their Pocket accounts to contacts from within the app. The feature uses that most old-sch

Pocket Sees 240M Saves In 2012 From 7.4M Users, Obama And Gangnam Style Most-Saved Items

Save-for-later service Pocket reported today that it has seen 240 million total items saved to its platform during 2012, from 7.4 million followers. That represents growth of around 85 percent for the

Pocket Rolls Out New Site Subscription Partners: Is This A Better Way Forward For Mobile Magazines?

Pocket announced its revamped Site Subscription feature along with launch partner Matter earlier this week, and today it's adding two new partner publications, including The New York Review of Books a

Save For Later Service Pocket Overhauls Its API To Make Things Easier For Its 10,000 Developer Partners

Pocket, the online service for saving content for later viewing that began life as Read It Later, today announced a brand new version of its API, designed to make things easier and better for its deve

Pocket’s Mac App Brings All That Saved Content To The Best Place To Use It

Pocket (formerly ReadItLater) delivered a new native Mac OS X app today, allowing you to save and access content for later reading from around the web. Pocket's rebrand was all about going beyond just

Pocket: 60% iOS 6 Adoption, 20% Of Daily Users Already On iPhone 5

The developers of Pocket have shared some interesting stats around Apple's latest product releases with us. The web content clipping service is already seeing 20% of its daily app traffic coming f

Pocket Raises $5M Series B; Plans To Bring Its ‘Save For Later’ App To More Devices And Platforms

In a doubling-down by existing investors, <a target="_blank" href="http://getpocket.com/">Pocket</a>, the content-shifting company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/17/read-it-later-rebrands-as-
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