Mozilla earned $ 79 million
The Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation announced in his blog the financial results for 2008 ( financial statements , tax return ), the most successful year in the history of Mozilla. During this period, the organization’s revenues amounted to $ 78.6 million, an increase of four million over the previous year.
The main source of profit remained the same - a partnership agreement with Google to pay for search traffic from the Firefox browser. Small amounts under similar agreements are obtained from Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and others. Recently, the number of partners Firefox replenished companies Canonical, Nokia and Yandex - they, too, in theory, something paid for the same agreements.
As grants and donations collected $ 1 million.
Just in case, Mozilla accumulates all net profit in a bank account, as well as in the form of investments (stocks, bonds, etc.). To date, the amount of assets has already grown to $ 117 million. This “airbag” ensures that the project will continue to exist for many years even in case of loss of the contract with Google, which expires in 2011.
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This is what the Mozilla investment structure looked like on December 31, 2008. As we see, after the start of the crisis in the stock market, the company managed to quickly get rid of the shares and get into cash.
Mozilla expenses for the year amounted to $ 49.4 million, more than half of this money went to the salaries of 200 employees worldwide.
2008 was the most successful year in the history of Mozilla. In some countries, Firefox has captured more than 50% market share. Indonesia became the first in July 2008, a few months later Slovenia and Macedonia joined it, and then Slovakia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana. Among all European countries, Firefox’s market share has exceeded 32%, and worldwide it’s 25% .
The daily audience of Firefox increased from 28 million in 2006 to 49 million in 2007 and 75 million in 2008, and in November 2009 to a record 110 million people. The total number of Firefox users is about 330 million.
The main source of profit remained the same - a partnership agreement with Google to pay for search traffic from the Firefox browser. Small amounts under similar agreements are obtained from Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and others. Recently, the number of partners Firefox replenished companies Canonical, Nokia and Yandex - they, too, in theory, something paid for the same agreements.
As grants and donations collected $ 1 million.
Just in case, Mozilla accumulates all net profit in a bank account, as well as in the form of investments (stocks, bonds, etc.). To date, the amount of assets has already grown to $ 117 million. This “airbag” ensures that the project will continue to exist for many years even in case of loss of the contract with Google, which expires in 2011.
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This is what the Mozilla investment structure looked like on December 31, 2008. As we see, after the start of the crisis in the stock market, the company managed to quickly get rid of the shares and get into cash.
Mozilla expenses for the year amounted to $ 49.4 million, more than half of this money went to the salaries of 200 employees worldwide.
2008 was the most successful year in the history of Mozilla. In some countries, Firefox has captured more than 50% market share. Indonesia became the first in July 2008, a few months later Slovenia and Macedonia joined it, and then Slovakia, the Philippines, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ghana. Among all European countries, Firefox’s market share has exceeded 32%, and worldwide it’s 25% .
The daily audience of Firefox increased from 28 million in 2006 to 49 million in 2007 and 75 million in 2008, and in November 2009 to a record 110 million people. The total number of Firefox users is about 330 million.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/75850/
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