Mozilla: more moolah
By Asha

On Dec 21, I had reported on how Mozilla had renewed its alliance with Google. Mozilla earns most of its $100 million plus revenue from a deal with Google under which Google is the default search engine for hundreds of millions of Mozilla Firefox users. 

The terms of the new 3 year deal between Mozilla and Google are a secret.

But All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher has scooped the details on how Mozilla has tripled its revenue with the new detail

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Google and Mozilla have said they had struck a deal to renew their search royalty agreement for another three years.

What the pair declined to add: The search giant will pay just under $300 million per year to be the default choice in Mozilla’s Firefox browser, a huge jump from its previous arrangement, due to competing interest from both Yahoo and Microsoft.
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(Techgoss published the following on Dec 21, 2011)

Google Mozilla deal
By Asha

Earlier this week, I had reported on how Google’s Chrome 15 had become the most popular web browser version worldwide for the first time on a weekly basis.  In November, Google’s Chrome had overtaken Mozilla’s Firefox at a global level.

Mozilla earns most of its $100 million plus revenue from a deal with Google under which Google is the default search engine for hundreds of millions of Mozilla Firefox users.  There was much speculation in the market that Google’s Chrome had become so successful that it no longer required an alliance with Mozilla’s Firefox.  Today, Mozilla announced a new 3 year deal with Google

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We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.

“Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world,” said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla.

The specific terms of this commercial agreement are subject to traditional confidentiality requirements, and we’re not at liberty to disclose them.
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