BrandedLogoDesigns Reviews: Mozilla takes Read It Later

Mozilla takes over the developer of the popular Pocket service with the software-maker Read It Later. This is to become an open source project with the integration into the Mozilla Corporation.
After Mozilla had integrated the web service Pocket since mid-2015 firmly in Firefox, now follows the takeover of the pocket developer Read It Later. As the company announces in a blog post, this is the first strategic acquisition on the part of Mozilla at all. Pocket is to be maintained as a new product line next to the Firefox browser and focus on finding and sharing high-quality web content. The two companies did not communicate the purchase price.

Mozilla CEO Chris Beard sees the acquisition as an important step to counter the increasing centralization in the network. Pocket provides users with a cross-platform platform to share their content freely.

With Pocket (formerly also Read it later) users secure objects from the net for archiving or for later reading. The service provides a clear user interface, which includes the maintenance of lists as well as various sharing connections via e-mail or social media. Pocket is available as a web app as well as a client for Mac, iOS and Android. In addition, the service is intertwined with numerous other providers such as feed, flipboard or Twitter.

Currently, Pocket counts around 10 million active users who have secured more than 3 billion web content. As part of the Mozilla Corporation, the source code of all pocket solutions will be published as open source.

How the new Mozilla service in practice suggests you in our review to Pocket.