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| 11.06.2019 | Facebook’s new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal | Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but... |
| 11.06.2019 | Facebook wants to pay you for your private data; unveils new Study app that tracks your app usage | No so long ago, Facebook was caught after it paid teenagers to get root access to their phones using spyware VPN app Onavo. The goal was to get insights and market data into how they use their phones. Now the social giant is wants to right ... |
| 22.02.2019 | Facebook VPN that snoops on users is pulled from Android store | Enlarge
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| 23.08.2018 | Apple has Officially Removed Facebook's Onavo Security App from their App Store
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An Apple spokesperson said in an email to CNBC that "We work hard to protect user... |
| 09.03.2018 | Facebook-owned Onavo quietly launches Bolt App Lock, a data-tracking app that locks other apps | Onavo, the data-security app maker Facebook acquired in 2013 in order gain insights into mobile user activity across apps, has quietly launched a new app aimed at Android users called Bolt App Lock. Instead of offering a VPN, Bolt App Lock ... |
| 30.09.2014 | Magma Venture Partners Closes $150M 4th Fund For Early Stage Israeli Startups | Magma Venture Partners, an Israeli early stage high-tech startup VC fund, has announced the closure of its fourth fund — with $150 million in committed capital. The new raise was supported by existing limited partners and new investors.
The... |
| 18.09.2014 | The iPhone 6 Dilemma: Finding Enough Useful Apps To Fill A Bigger Home Screen | Among other advancements, the iPhone 6 promises another row of application icons on your home screen. The question is whether you can usefully fill it.
Apple trumpets the availability of 1.3 million apps in its App Store, but in reality we ... |
| 22.03.2014 | Turkey Blocks Google DNS, YouTube Could Be Next | The social media crackdown in Turkey continues, as the country has moved to block backdoor access to communications services like Twitter through Google DNS. YouTube, another service offered by the global search giant, might be next after r... |
| 14.10.2013 | Facebook Acquires Onavo | Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) acquired Onavo, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based data compression technology and mobile analytics company.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed and reports said it could be in the $100m/$200m range.
Launched three ye... |
| 14.10.2013 | Facebook acquires mobile data compression firm Onavo, announces Android alpha program | It looks as though Facebook is trying to help reduce the costs of using the social network on the move with its acquisition of Onavo. Onavo specializes in mobile data compression and data usage tracking, with a goal of helping people use mo... |
| 14.10.2013 | Facebook buys mobile data optimization company Onavo | Deal reportedly worth between $150 to $200 million
For Facebook, there are two main goals these days: to expand its international presence, and to give the Internet to everyone around the world. These two goals go hand in hand, and now the ... |
| 14.10.2013 | Facebook heads to Israel with Onavo buy, gets a leg up on mobile data compression and analytics | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Here’s one way Facebook and its Internet.org partners will help to connect the next 5 billion people.
Facebook announced last night tha... |
| 14.10.2013 | Facebook heads to Israel with Onavo buy, gets a leg up on mobile data compression and analytics | Here’s one way Facebook and its Internet.org partners will help to connect the next 5 billion people.
Facebook announced last night that it has acquired Onavo, an Isreali company that has developed apps to compress mobile data and save mone... |
| 13.10.2013 | Facebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To $200M… And (Finally?) Gets Its Office In Israel | Big news for a Monday/late Sunday night (depending on where you are): Onavo, the Tel Aviv-based mobile analytics company, has just announced that it has been acquired by Facebook. Onavo will become the anchor for Facebook in Israel — its fi... |
| 26.09.2013 | Twitter’s global mobile reach: 36% in U.S, 8% in Germany, 64% in Indonesia | Twitter’s IPO is probably less than 90 days away, and the social media purveyor of the now is still rapidly growing. Not always, however, in predictable ways.
Especially not in Berlin.
Some countries like Germany, South Korea, and Australia... |
| 26.09.2013 | Twitter’s global mobile reach: 36% in U.S, 8% in Germany, 64% in Indonesia | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Twitter’s IPO is probably less than 90 days away, and the social media purveyor of the now is still rapidly growing. Not always, howeve... |
| 10.09.2013 | How to Reduce Your Monthly Wireless Bill: 12 Useful Tips | Wireless providers thrive on peddling a myriad of extra features and services on top of your basic service plan. Early nights and weekends, roadside assistance, mobile TV, hotspots and GPS are all fair game and can add anywhere between a co... |
| 28.08.2013 | Apple reportedly snaps up mobile data compression company AlgoTrim | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Three ways to tell if Apple’s the one behind an a... |
| 28.08.2013 | Apple reportedly snaps up mobile data compression company AlgoTrim | Three ways to tell if Apple’s the one behind an acquisition: It involves an unknown startup; very specific technology and engineering talents are at play; and the company is being inexplicably furtive about who actually owns it.
When it com... |
| 30.07.2013 | Onavo Count 2.0 for Android is the best-looking mobile data tracker yet | As mobile data plans get more and more complicated, users are turning to bandwidth-monitoring apps to avoid steep overage charges. Now, you can track your bandwidth with style.
Onavo, maker of data compression apps for the iPhone and Androi... |
| 30.07.2013 | Onavo Count 2.0 for Android is the best-looking mobile data tracker yet | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As mobile data plans get more and more complicated, users are turning to bandwidth-monitoring apps to avoid steep overage charges. Now,... |
| 20.06.2013 | Vine Has A Head Start, But There’s Plenty Of Room For An Instagram Video Win | Facebook is making an announcement later today that we have heard could do with Instagram, its very popular photo app, getting a video service. If true, Facebook would be entering a crowded market — but one that is nevertheless ripe for the... |
| 13.05.2013 | Routing Around Apple’s Restrictions, AppCertain & Others Bring Enterprise-Level Control To Consumers In The Interest Of Child Safety | In the interest of protecting children, a new iOS application called AppCertain has debuted a monitoring application aimed at parents. The app, whose goal is to alert parents about the nature of the applications their kids are downloading, ... |
| 13.03.2013 | Winners & Losers: Supercell’s Clash of Clans Tripled Its U.S. Marketshare, Report Shows | Clash of Clans, the title that’s made Finland’s Supercell the new darling of the mobile gaming industry, has doubled its marketshare among U.S. iPhone users over the last six months, according to Onavo, an app tracking company that can actu... |
| 11.02.2013 | Magma Venture Partners Completes $100M+ Third Fund Fundraising — Taking Its Total Fund Size To $300M+ | Israeli early stage high-tech startup VC fund Magma Venture Partners, whose current portfolio includes online video-editing software developer Magisto, mobile analytics company Onavo, and navigation app maker Waze to name three, has complet... |
| 08.02.2013 | Finally, A Quantcast For Mobile Apps? Onavo Launches Insights | One of the problems I’ve always run into as a reporter covering the app ecosystem, is that it’s so hard to find actual data about how well apps are doing. There are the top free and grossing ranks, but those tend to measure downloads or vol... |
| 08.02.2013 | Onavo Insights taps real user data to see how mobile apps perform | App developers love to tout download and engagement figures, but it’s often tough to verify their (sometimes padded) claims. Onavo aims to change that with the launch of Onavo Insights, a new mobile market intelligence platform
Onavo Insigh... |
| 08.02.2013 | Onavo Insights taps real user data to see how mobile apps perform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
App developers love to tout download and engagement figures, but it’s often tough to verify their (sometimes padded) claims. Onavo aims... |
| 30.01.2013 | The Surprising iOS Games That Saw The Most Active Usage In The U.S. Last Month | Because of the rankings, the top-grossing games and the ones that get the most downloads are known. But Apple and Google are much more conservative with what they reveal about apps and their active usage. And active usage is a far more impo... |
| 17.12.2012 | What The Twitter/Instagram Standoff Has Meant For Traffic To Instagram | When Instagram began to pull its inline previews of photos out of Twitter almost two weeks ago, many did not take that turn of events too well. Consumers like things easy, and clicking out of one app or site to go elsewhere is not always th... |
| 28.11.2012 | Black Friday beats Cyber Monday for mobile shopping | In the battle between made-up consumer holidays, it looks like Black Friday still reigns supreme on mobile devices.
When it comes to increases in usage, mobile apps from Amazon, Newegg, and Gilt all saw significantly higher gains on Black F... |
| 28.11.2012 | Black Friday beats Cyber Monday for mobile shopping | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the battle between made-up consumer holidays, it looks like Black Friday still reigns supreme on mobile devices.
When it comes to in... |
| 26.11.2012 | Which Mobile Commerce Apps Won On Black Friday? | Groupon maintained its spot as the top mobile commerce app, but Best Buy saw the biggest overall one-day gain on Black Friday, according to Onavo, a Sequoia-backed mobile data compression startup.
Usage of Best Buy and Walmart’s iOS apps ju... |
| 30.10.2012 | iPhone apps hogging your data? Track their usage with Onavo Count | Onavo, the creator of popular data compression apps for the iPhone and Android, has just launched a new app to help you track apps that are eating up your cellular data.
With the free Onavo Count app, you can view a 30-day history of how ap... |
| 30.10.2012 | iPhone apps hogging your data? Track their usage with Onavo Count | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Onavo, the creator of popular data compression apps for the iPhone and Android, has just launched a new app to help you track apps that... |
| 19.10.2012 | Waze Is The Only App To Gain Meaningful Marketshare After Apple Maps Fail, Onavo Finds | The poor reception for Apple’s new maps app temporarily boosted usage for other map applications. But it didn’t actually increase longer-term marketshare for any of them — except for one.
Waze boosted its market share to 10 percent of U.S. ... |
| 03.10.2012 | Report: iOS 6 Maps is data-efficient compared to predecessor | reader comments 119 with 84 posters participating
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In the face of negative press about iOS 6's new Maps app, a bit of detective work by mobile app producer Onavo has unearth... |
| 03.10.2012 | Is Apple's app Maptastic? | Apple has received pointed criticism for its own Maps application used in iOS 6, which eventually forced CEO Tim Cook to issue a public apology for delivering a less that competent alternative to Google Maps that until the latest mobile ope... |
| 26.09.2012 | Five top business apps for the iPhone 5 | The unveiling of the iPhone 5 last week looks like being another triumph for Apple, with a record two million handsets pre-ordered in the first 24 hours.
But with the device set to be unleashed on the Australian market tomorrow, the questio... |
| 20.09.2012 | Five top business apps for the iPhone 5 | The unveiling of the iPhone 5 last week looks like being another triumph for Apple, with a record two million handsets pre-ordered in the first 24 hours.
But with the device set to be unleashed on the Australian market tomorrow, the questio... |
| 14.08.2012 | Onavo: Mobile shoppers compare prices most on Saturdays, buy most on Sundays, Mondays | The rising popularity of mobile shopping apps is leading to entirely new consumer behaviors, according to a joint report by mobile data compression company Onavo and IDC.
Based on anonymous data from U.S. iPhone users running Onavo’s app, t... |
| 14.08.2012 | Onavo: Mobile shoppers compare prices most on Saturdays, buy most on Sundays, Mondays | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The rising popularity of mobile shopping apps is leading to entirely new consumer behaviors, according to a joint report by mobile data... |
| 12.07.2012 | What it’s like pitching to grandmas acting like VCs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you ever thought pitching a VC was hard, maybe... |
| 24.04.2012 | Onavo Extend’s data compression comes to 4G LTE iPad, CDMA iPhone 4S | Onavo is opening up its data compression app, Onavo Extend, to even more iOS users today. The company announced this morning that the app is now available for the new LTE iPad and the iPhone 4S on CDMA networks like Sprint and Verizon.
The ... |
| 10.04.2012 | 5 Things the Experts Say You Need to Know About the Facebook-Instagram Merger | Depending on which hastily pasted-together analysis you believe, Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition Monday is reason enough to close your Instagram account, and Facebook is going to ruin Instagram. We’re not buying it, so instead we spent Mo... |
| 26.02.2012 | Onavo’s data compression makes its way to Android 4.0 devices | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Onavo has had something of a split personality for the past year. The company’s iPhone app has won countless awards for its revolutiona... |
| 26.02.2012 | Onavo’s data compression makes its way to Android 4.0 devices | Onavo has had something of a split personality for the past year. The company’s iPhone app has won countless awards for its revolutionary data compression capability (including top prize at our MobileBeat 2011 conference), but Android users... |
| 24.02.2012 | How to attract users to your app and go platinum | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you are a struggling artist or developer working on the next great mobile app, you need a strategy for drawing in users.
Keep in min... |
| 24.02.2012 | How to attract users to your app and go platinum | If you are a struggling artist or developer working on the next great mobile app, you need a strategy for drawing in users.
Keep in mind that buying traffic to convert to users doesn’t always add up. Developing for the mobile platform is va... |
| 14.02.2012 | How a few simple push notifications helped data shrinking app Onavo go viral | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of the great things about Onavo, the hot mobile app that compresses your iPhone’s data, is that most of its magic happens in the ba... |
| 14.02.2012 | How a few simple push notifications helped data shrinking app Onavo go viral | One of the great things about Onavo, the hot mobile app that compresses your iPhone’s data, is that most of its magic happens in the background. But while that makes Onavo a breeze to use, it also makes it easy for users to forget that they... |
| 24.01.2012 | Onavo’s Data-Compressing Mobile App Raises $10 Million Series B From Horizons, Motorola Ventures | Onavo, makers of the money-saving, data-compressing app mobile app, just raised $10 million in Series B funding. Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Li Ka-shing, led the investment along with Motorola Mobility Ventures, the str... |
| 24.01.2012 | Mobile data shrinking app Onavo raises $10M, working on compression for Android | Onavo, a company known for its iPhone app that shrinks mobile data, announced today that it has raised an additional $10 million in a second round of funding from Horizons Ventures and Motorola Mobility Ventures.
Guy Rosen, Onavo’s co-found... |
| 24.01.2012 | Mobile data shrinking app Onavo raises $10M, working on compression for Android | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Onavo, a company known for its iPhone app that shrinks mobile data, announced today that it has raised an additional $10 million in a s... |
| 15.12.2011 | Onavo’s Android widget lets you track mobile data usage in real time | Now Android users will have an even better sense of just how much precious bandwidth their apps are using.
Onavo, a company known for its iPhone app that compress mobile data, has upgraded its Android app today with a new widget that can gi... |
| 15.12.2011 | Onavo’s Android widget lets you track mobile data usage in real time | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Now Android users will have an even better sense of just how much precious bandwidth their apps are using.
Onavo, a company known for i... |
| 12.12.2011 | Get more data on your iPhone or Android's wireless plan for free | Unless you are one of the lucky few to have an unlimited, all-you-can-eat wireless plan, your phone's data is limited -- it's either metered, where your rate depends upon how much you use it -- or capped, where your data simply stops when y... |
| 30.08.2011 | Onavo – The Must-Have Data Shrinking iOS App – Comes To Android | It’s one thing to hear praise for an app from geeks, it’s another when you hear it from ‘normal folks’. Onavo falls in this category.
The free data-shrinking app which we’ve praised in the past runs quietly in the background and dramaticall... |
| 12.08.2011 | Spotify’s iPhone Usage Jumps | No-one really knows what Spotify’s US growth has been since launch a month ago month, but it appears to be making an impact on American iPhone users. Onavo, a service which shrinks your data use on the iPhone, can track what data people are... |
| 12.08.2011 | Spotify's iPhone usage jumps | No-one really knows what Spotify’s US growth has been since launch a month ago month, but it appears to be making an impact on American iPhone users. Onavo, a service which shrinks your data use on the iPhone, can track what data people are... |
| 13.07.2011 | Mobile, mobile, mobile: 16 startups worth following | Eight consumer-facing companies and eight infrastructure services, all mobile goodness
As much as (if not more than) the social space, mobile is one of the most rapidly exploding markets in the technology industry right now. Whether it's ga... |
| 13.07.2011 | Onavo, Roar Engine dominate MobileBeat startup contest | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
We chose 16 mobile startups to take part in our MobileBeat 2011 startup competition today, but only two could win our coveted Tesla pri... |
| 13.07.2011 | Onavo, Roar Engine dominate MobileBeat startup contest | We chose 16 mobile startups to take part in our MobileBeat 2011 startup competition today, but only two could win our coveted Tesla prize.
Onavo, a company that compresses mobile data on smartphones and tablets, and Roar Engine, which impre... |
| 07.07.2011 | Meet the 8 consumer/app startups for the MobileBeat 2011 competition | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s that time of the year again: VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference is coming up on July 12 – 13 at the Palace Hotel in San Fran... |
| 07.07.2011 | Meet the 8 consumer/app startups for the MobileBeat 2011 competition | It’s that time of the year again: VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference is coming up on July 12 – 13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This year our theme is “Who wins in the 4G nirvana?” We’ll be focusing on the rise of 4G and what ... |
| 23.06.2011 | Data hog! Twitter's own iPhone app uses twice the data of Tweetdeck | Remember all those big hints Twitter gave about not developing client apps any more? Well that’s working out well for them. It turns out their own, in-house client app for the iPhone is the worst of all the major Twitter apps for hogging da... |
| 18.05.2011 | Onavo Closes $3M Funding | Onavo, a developer of a mobile app that is designed to make mobile data
consumption transparent, manageable and efficient, has closed a $3m Series A round of funding.
Investors include Sequoia Capital and Magma Venture Partners.
The company... |
| 18.05.2011 | What you need to know - 05/18/11 | Clio Music is a new kind of Music Genome Project; NextSpace closes its $625K angel round
In direct contrast to Pandora’s approach, new tech just launched from Orpheus Media Research (OMR), a Brooklyn-based music research and development com... |
| 18.05.2011 | Onavo raises $3 million to shrink your data | Sequoia Capital and Magma Venture Partners participate in Series A for unique mobile data management
Onavo, provider of data management apps for smartphones and tablets, announced Wednesday it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from ... |
| 17.05.2011 | Sequoia Leads $3M Round in Onavo, The Must-Have Data Shrinking iOS App | It was only a few shorts weeks ago that we reviewed Onavo, the must-have iOS app that significantly shrinks data consumption. We were so impressed with the app’s ability to save users money on their data usage plans, that we went so far as ... |
| 17.05.2011 | Avoid Data Caps and Compress Your iPhone Data with Onavo | If you have to keep an eye on your iPhone data usage – whether it’s due to data caps or roaming fees – then you might like Onavo, a new app that will monitor and compress your data so you can use (and pay for) less data.
Once you download t... |
| 29.04.2011 | Onavo's Guy Rosen Plans To Disrupt Data Roaming (TCTV) | Onavo, as we just reported, is a magical iPhone app which literally shrinks the data your phone uses and thus your roaming data bill when you are travelling.
It launches today and I caught up with CEO and co-founder Guy Rosen at The Next We... |
| 29.04.2011 | Onavo Is A Money-Saving, Must-Have App For EVERY iPhone Data User | There’s really no better way to describe Onavo other than a must-have app for any and every iPhone user on a data plan. I’ll go a step further: I think it’s the very first app one should install.
Why? Because Onavo shrinks your data usage (... |
| 29.04.2011 | Interview with Onavo's Guy Rosen (TCTV) | Onavo, as we just reported, is a magical iPhone app which literally shrinks the data your phone uses and thus your roaming data bill when you are travelling. It launches today and I caught up with CEO and co-founder Guy Rosen at The Next We... |
| 18.04.2011 | TheNextWeb Conference is cleared for landing – Will you handle it? | The Next Web Conference 2011 in Amsterdam is next week and as usual it’s, well, a gas. It’s startups, it’s good weather, it’s in Amsterdam – what’s not to love? Amazingly it’s in its sixth year and TechCrunch Europe will be there to cover t... |
