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Fakespot, a useful service that explains how products you've never heard of could have 12,000 reviews with a 4.6-star average, has been acquired by Firefox maker Mozilla, and Mozilla plans to integrate it into Firefox.

"We are joining a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the Internet," writes Saoud Khalifah, founder of Fakespot, on the company's site. "In Mozilla, we have found a partner that shares a similar mission as to what the future of the internet should look like, where the convergence of trust, privacy, and security play an imperative part of our digital experiences."

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Mozilla baut speziellen VR-Browser

Mit Firefox Reality kündigt Mozilla einen auf Immersive Reality spezialisierten Browser an. Er soll in Mixed-Reality-Headsets laufen, also sowohl VR als auch AR unterstützen. Die Technik dafür kommt auch aus dem Servo-Projekt.

Seit etwa eineinhalb Jahren arbeitet Mozilla an der Unterstützung von VR-Technik im Web. Der dafür bei Mozilla zuständige Sean White, Senior Vice President (SVP) Emerging Technologies, hat im vergangenen Herbst im Gespräch mit Golem.de die viele Einsatzmöglichkeiten dieser Technik angepriesen und deutlich gemacht, dass Mozilla hier stark investieren will. Nun kündigt Mozilla mit Firefox Reality eine Browser-Variation an, die für den Einsatz in VR-Headsets gedacht ist.

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Mozilla is growing, experimenting more, and doubling down on our mission to keep the internet healthy, as a global public resource that’s open and accessible to all. As our first strategic acquisition, Pocket contributes to our strategy by growing our mobile presence and providing people everywhere with powerful tools to discover and access high quality web content, on their terms, independent of platform or content silo.

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.

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