Digg Founder Kevin Rose Offers to Buy Mozilla’s Pocket App
Digg’s Kevin Rose wants to acquire Mozilla’s Pocket to revive and expand its read-it-later service. What this means for users and content sharing.
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Digg Founder Kevin Rose Offers to Buy Mozilla’s Pocket App
Mozilla’s recent announcement to shut down its popular read-it-later app, Pocket, by July 8, 2025, has left many users wondering what’s next for their saved articles and reading lists. If you’ve been searching for news about Pocket’s future or whether it will continue to be available, here’s an important update: Digg founder Kevin Rose has publicly expressed interest in acquiring Pocket from Mozilla. This potential acquisition could reshape how users save, discover, and share web content, blending Pocket’s core functionality with Digg’s evolving news aggregator platform. Image Credits:Grace Cary / Getty Images Digg, once a dominant Web 2.0 link aggregator, is currently making a comeback under the leadership of Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. The duo’s combined expertise brings a promising future to Digg’s revival. Rose’s offer to take over Pocket, posted on X (formerly Twitter), signals an opportunity to preserve and enhance the app’s loyal user…