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Apple removed Facebook’s Onavo from the App Store for gathering app data
If you were on the edge of your seat wondering what Facebook’s next major consumer privacy headache would be, the wait is over! The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has deemed Facebook-owned app...
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Seized cache of Facebook docs raise competition and consent questions
A UK parliamentary committee has published the cache of Facebook documents it dramatically seized last week. The documents were obtained by a legal discovery process by a startup that’s suing the...
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to...
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Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo
Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following TechCrunch’s investigation about Onavo code...
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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...
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Facebook Viewpoints pays users for well-being surveys & tasks
Facebook is launching a new market research, task, and product testing program that lets users earn money. Starting today, people in the US who are over 18 can download Viewpoints and participate in a...
View ArticleFacebook’s use of Onavo spyware faces questions in EU antitrust probe — report
Facebook’s use of the Onavo spyware VPN app it acquired in 2013 — and used to inform its 2014 purchase of the then rival WhatsApp messaging platform — is on the radar of Europe’s antitrust regulator,...
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Zuckerberg unconvincingly feigns ignorance of data-sucking VPN scandal
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg appeared less than entirely truthful at today’s House Judiciary hearing, regarding last year’s major Onavo controversy, in which his company paid teenagers to use a VPN app...
View ArticleSteps from the House’s antitrust report are too little, too late when it...
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has finally released its omnibus report on its investigation into the monopoly powers held by Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook and its findings will do nothing...
View ArticleAustralia sues Facebook over its use of Onavo to snoop
Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial...
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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...
View ArticleOnavo – 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...
View ArticleOnavo’s Data-Compressing Mobile App Raises $10 Million Series B From...
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...
View ArticleWhich 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....
View ArticleFinally, 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...
View ArticleOnavo Launches Acquisition Insights To Let Mobile Developers See How Their...
One of the biggest white lies mobile gaming studios and other app developers often tell is that they don’t rely on ad spending to get new users. “It’s all organic,” is the common refrain. Or is it?...
View ArticleFacebook Buys Mobile Data Analytics Company Onavo, Reportedly For Up To...
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...
View ArticleFacebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app
Onavo Protect, the VPN client from the data-security app maker acquired by Facebook back in 2013, has now popped up in the Facebook iOS app itself, under the banner “Protect” in the navigation menu....
View ArticleFacebook-owned Onavo quietly launches Bolt App Lock, a data-tracking app that...
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....
View ArticleMeta firms fined in Australia over ‘Onavo Protect’ consumer protection breach
Remember Onavo? The Israeli mobile market intelligence company that Meta (aka Facebook) bought back in 2013 and used to power a free VPN/data management app which claimed to users it would help protect...
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