Firefox developer Mozilla cuts about a quarter of jobs
Firefox developer Mozilla is cutting around one in four jobs as a result of the coronavirus crisis. At the same time, the company wants to expand its business by accelerating the development of new services.
Around 250 employees will lose their jobs and the site in Taiwan will be closed, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker announced on Tuesday (local time). Baker admitted that the economic impact of the pandemic had significantly depressed sales.
A key source of income for Mozilla is a deal with Google: the internet company pays for its search engine to be preset in the Firefox web browser. Google reported a decline in online advertising revenue for the past quarter.
With the new services, Mozilla wants to focus on data protection offerings for Internet users, among other things, as Baker announced. Investments in services for software developers, on the other hand, are to be scaled back. (SDA)
