https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-pocket/
Mozilla had previously made Pocket a mandatory part of Firefox and that really annoyed a lot of people because Pocket's business model was to spy on users for profit. This acquisition gives me hope that the spying will be eliminated, making Pocket - which is a genuinely useful tool - safe for all to use.
Pocket will join Mozilla's product portfolio as a new product line alongside the Firefox web browsers with a focus on promoting the discovery and accessibility of high quality web content. (Here's a link to their blog post on the acquisition). Pocket's core team and technology will also accelerate Mozilla's broader Context Graph initiative.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday February 28 2017, @06:05PM
Oops, I submitted when I meant to preview.
> Chad Weiner of Mozilla is the father of Nate Weiner of Pocket:
How do you know this? The page you've linked doesn't say that. It doesn't mention Nate Weiner at all. You say this is a reminder, but a search for "weiner pocket" (not as a phrase) turns up no stories on Soylent News (searching comments doesn't work for me).
/search.pl?tid=&query=weiner+pocket&author=&sort=1&op=stories [soylentnews.org]
Chad Weiner was "director of product management" around the time Mozilla integrated Pocket into Firefox.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2015/07/14/mozilla_firefox_the_popular_web_browser_is_blocking_bug_ridden_adobe_flash.html [slate.com]
I searched the Web and found that the comment you're reposting is from Slashdot; a commenter on Heise asked whether it's coincidental that the two people have the same last name.
https://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10300867&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=53944341 [slashdot.org]
https://www.heise.de/forum/heise-online/News-Kommentare/Mozilla-uebernimmt-Spaeter-lesen-Dienst-Pocket/Mozilla-s-director-of-project-management-Chad-Weiner-Pocket-founder-Nate-Weiner/posting-30016306/show/ [heise.de]
We really need to see the long-form birth certificate, here.