Mozilla Corporation
American software company
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| February 8 2024 | Mitchell Baker stepped down as CEO, with board member Laura Chambers announced as interim CEO, to allow Baker to focus on AI and internet safety as Mozilla Foundation chair. |
| 2023 | Mozilla reports $653 million in total revenue, with 85% ($555 million) from search partnerships, showing a recovery and growth trend. |
| May 2023 | Mozilla acquired Fakespot, a startup specializing in identifying fake product reviews, with plans to integrate their technology into Firefox. |
| 2022 | Mozilla Corporation received 81% of its revenue from Google in exchange for making Google the default search engine in Firefox browser. |
| 2020 | Mozilla's revenue drops to $497 million, likely due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, with 86% ($427.4 million) still coming from search partnerships. |
| December 2020 | Mozilla closed its Mountain View headquarters, relocating the headquarters title to the San Francisco office due to reduced office space needs from the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| August 2020 | Mozilla announced a major restructuring, including closing operations in Taipei and reducing workforce globally, with approximately 250 employees to be let go. |
| August 11 2020 | Mozilla Taiwan ceased operations due to a significant restructuring of the parent company. |
| January 2020 | Mozilla reported plans to lay off 70 employees due to insufficient new revenue streams. |
| 2019 | Mozilla received $338 million from a settlement with Verizon related to the terminated Yahoo! search partnership. |
| 2019 | Mozilla experiences a significant revenue spike to $829 million, the highest in the company's recorded history. |
| August 29 2019 | Mozilla and Chris Beard announced that 2019 would be his last year as CEO. |
| November 17 2017 | With the release of Firefox Quantum, Google was reinstated as the default search engine, replacing Yahoo! |
| February 2017 | Mozilla dissolved its IoT 'Connected Devices' initiative, laying off around 50 employees to focus on Emerging Technologies like AR, VR, and Servo/Rust. |
| February 27 2017 | Mozilla acquired Pocket, a bookmark manager and suggestion service, with plans to integrate it into Mozilla's open-source project. |
| 2015 | Mozilla switches search revenue source from Google to Yahoo, maintaining 90% of revenue ($378 million) from the new partner. |
| 2015 | Li Gong ended his tenure as president of Mozilla Corporation |
| November 2014 | Mozilla signed a five-year partnership with Yahoo!, making Yahoo! Search the default search engine for Firefox browsers in the United States. |
| July 28 2014 | Chris Beard was officially named CEO of Mozilla after serving as interim CEO since April. |
| April 3 2014 | Brendan Eich stepped down as CEO and from Mozilla Foundation's board following public criticism over his past political donation. |
| March 2014 | Mozilla appointed Brendan Eich as CEO, which sparked controversy due to his previous $1,000 contribution supporting California Proposition 8 against same-sex marriage. |
| March 2014 | Half of the Mozilla Corporation board of directors resigned, significantly changing the board's composition. |
| November 2012 | The IRS audit was closed, with Mozilla Foundation required to pay a settlement of $1.5 million to the Internal Revenue Service. |
| 2011 | Original Google search engine referral agreement with Mozilla expired. |
| March 22 2011 | The Internet Explorer development team sent a congratulatory cake to Mozilla for the successful release of Firefox 4. |
| 2010 | Mozilla Corporation reported total revenue of $123 million, with 84% ($103.3 million) derived from Google, and total expenses of $87 million. |
| 2010 | Firefox was one of twelve browsers offered to European Economic Area users of Microsoft Windows through BrowserChoice.eu. |
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