Facebook Buys Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo 38
rtoz writes "Israeli Mobile Data Management Startup "Onavo" has announced that it has been acquired by Social Media Giant Facebook. Facebook will get its first office at Israel by acquiring Onavo. Techcrunch has mentioned that Onavo will give facebook a much deeper tech bench to measure how its mobile services are working. 'Onavo will be an exciting addition to Facebook,' a Facebook spokesperson told AllThingsD. 'We expect Onavo's data compression technology to play a central role in our mission to connect more people to the internet, and their analytic tools will help us provide better, more efficient mobile products.'"
Onavo app (Score:2)
I love the Onavo app for my Android.
Is there any good app that can replace it?
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Used to use on it iOS, until it routed all data through an insecure VPN.
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Eh. So you are loving a spyware app that you downloaded and installed yourself? And now you are asking for a good replacement?
Sorry, I don't follow.
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Wait, I don't follow politics daily: Who is the "bad" guys du jour in the middle east currently?
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They ARE the bad guys.
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You mean Palestinian women and children you consider to be "bad guys" because you starve them until they break the rules?
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As far as I can see, an Israeli company's chances of backdooring its own product to help the Israeli intelligence are much lower than an American's.
My source - I have been in charge of product security for Check Point between late 2000 and early 2003. Never once saw any sign of back door. Never saw any request to backdoor. Was never asked to ignore or bury a vulnerability. Was never dissuaded from conducting proactive audits to find vulnerabilities.
What's your source?
Shachar
P.S.
Yes, I know that it is possib
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As someone with a data plan that's not at all unlimited I find it a valuable tool, and now that Zuckerberg has paid 100M for it, he can find out all about my non-existant Facebook related data usage.
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Capitalism is about to come apart at the seams, actually. It was about a product and selling a product. All that's left by now is selling, and the current pinnacle of the devolution is that we're just selling the selling now.
That's what Facebook is, essentially. It's selling you info that allows you to sell your products. Since that is far more profitable than actually selling a product (because you have the expense of actually making a product) whereas Facebook can simply sell a "self producing" product (i
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Problem is just that nobody is selling a product anymore that anyone would possibly actually WANT to have.
Then how do people pay Facebook for its information?
Geesh. It's hard to believe the crap that people upvote on Slashdot.
Facebook is an Israeli/US intelligence operation (Score:1)
As the Snowden leaks made clear, ALL surveillance data goes to Israel and many of the "companies" that produce the software for this and other espionage purposes are based there.
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You do know that the founders of Facebook are all Jews right?
So your theory is that The Winklevoss Twins were cut off because goyim?
"mission to connect more people to the internet" (Score:2, Interesting)
My, aren't they philantropic all of a sudden. Except that "the internet" means "facebook", and the price tag is having everything you post as well as everything else you do, slurped up, sliced, diced, analysed, sold off to the highest bidder in convenient packages, and regularly dressed up in a "New! Improved!" privacy policy, which usually means less choice to bare ever more, for you.
Of course, we all expect cheese-curdling weaselspeak from this sort of announcement, but even that has limits, and even here
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The fact is that over 90 percent of the public doesn't give a shit about privacy. If they did facebook would have disappeared by now. I deleted my facebook account 3 years ago, I only had it at all to see pictures of my grand children that my daughter and daughter-in-law posted there. Eventually I got so annoyed with facebook's crap I just deleted the damn thing. All this ranting is pointless though because almost everyone on facebook knows that they have no privacy and don't care about it.
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Have you ever talked to any of these people about the fact that facebook datamines them and sells all their personal info? I have. To dozens of people. Out of all of those, every single one without exception, the response was always some form of "so what." Yeah they don't want their friends to know what they're talking about on the phone maybe and they probably don't want their coworkers knowing all about them but when it's just some faceless global corporation it's like it's okay. Really all the stuff
NSA tie in? (Score:2)
So my questions are: Does being based in Israel provide Facebook's Israeli "subsidiaries" with the ability to use the data from Facebook users differently, that is, in a way that is similar in some aspect to how Israel has access to raw collect NSA data on American citizens in ways that American law doesn't allow? Not to be all conspiracy theory driven but is there a Facebook / NSA connection in this?
I'm thinking back to the earlier /. post on "NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel" http://yro.slashdot [slashdot.org]