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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla


The deal could be interesting if it went through, as Digg could leverage Pocket's existing user base to fuel interest in its relaunch.

On Thursday, Mozilla announced it would shut down Pocket on July 8, saying that the way people use the web has evolved, and it needed to focus on new areas of development. This could provide an initial pipeline for feeding news and articles into Digg while it worked to grow its user base. Digg recently announced it has also brought on Christian Selig, the founder of the third-party Reddit app Apollo, as an adviser.

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