In 2014, Mozilla took a loss of almost $6 million from currency exchanges. dollar grew stronger and other countries' currencies weakened. Like many multi-national corporations and organizations, Mozilla suffered from currency headwinds as the U.S.
Meanwhile, another line item, branding and marketing, declined by 11%, to $41 million in 2014.
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Most of Mozilla's expenses - 67% in 2014, the same percentage as the year before - were spent on software development, which increased from $197 million in 2013 to $213 million last year, an 8% increase. Neither Mozilla or Yahoo has divulged the financial terms of the five-year contract that runs through late 2019. According to calculations by Computerworld - based on Mozilla's financial statements - Google paid Mozilla more than $800 million in the three years of their last contract. The bulk of 2014's search revenue, however, continued to come from Google, which paid Mozilla in 11 of the year's 12 months. Additionally, Mozilla inked other deals in Russia and China with Yandex and Baidu, respectively. and Canada.Ī year ago, Mozilla announced it had not renewed the long-standing Google contract, and had signed instead with Yahoo for the North American markets. The provider whose contract expired last year was Google Yahoo was the replacement, at least in the U.S. In December 2014, Mozilla entered into a contract with another search engine provider for royalties which expires December 2019." The $291 million was a 6% increase over 2013.Īs it has done in the past, Mozilla did not name the largest sources of its income, saying only that, "Mozilla entered into a contract with a search engine provider for royalties which expired in November 2014. Search-based revenue was approximately $291 million, representing 90% of all royalty income and 88% of Mozilla's total revenue. In 2014, all royalty payments accounted for 98% of the year's income, a slightly-higher portion than in 2013.
Mozilla Foundation is the non-profit that oversees Mozilla Corp., the commercial arm which develops the Firefox browser and Firefox OS mobile operating system.Īs has historically been the case, virtually all the foundation's 2014 revenue - $323 million - came from royalty payments, the bulk of that from search providers, which paid Mozilla to place their engines as the default in Firefox.
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