


Pocket gives Mozilla a foothold on iPhones, iPads and competing mobile devices powered by Google's Android software. "It creates openness in a way that historically wouldn't be there." "They layer on top of all the different silos out there," said Denelle Dixon-Thayer, Mozilla's chief business and legal officer. Pocket offers Mozilla a new way to pursue its mission of fostering a healthy diversity on the web even as we spend more of our time online within major centralized "silos" like Facebook. It's a hot business on app stores, news sites, and other realms because middlemen can profit by showing content advertisers have paid to blend in. The app also lets people discover what others have already stored, an idea called discovery. Ten million people actively use Pocket monthly as a mobile app or browser add-on, Mozilla said, with more than 3 billion pieces of content saved so far. That's because Mozilla said Monday it's acquired Read It Later, the developer of the Pocket software for storing articles, videos and other content on the web. Now you have removed Pocket from your Mozilla Firefox browser.You may not have brought Mozilla's Firefox browser with you when you added iPhones or Android phones to your life, but now you might well be using Mozilla software on your mobile device anyway.

