Mozilla is firing 250 employees and wants to focus more on paid services – IT Pro – News

Mozilla is firing 250 employees. That is a quarter of all employees. The company says it has been hit hard by the corona crisis and wants to shift its priorities to include paid products in the coming period.

Mozilla, among other things, is closing its office in Taiwan, the company writes a message to employees. Sixty employees will also work in a different team. Mozilla fired earlier this year 70 employeesbecause the development of services to generate more revenue was delayed.

The company has been hit hard by the corona crisis, says director Mitchell Baker. Mozilla therefore wants to work even more on products that can bring the company money. “We have to recognize that the old model where everything was free has consequences for us and explore new possibilities,” writes Baker.

One way to make money is the paid VPN service Mozilla has been in beta since December. The company also wants to invest in Pocket and Web Assembly and in ‘security and privacy tools’, although it does not provide any further information about the latter. Things like developer tools are getting less attention, Mozilla says. In the long term, Mozilla also wants to invest in machine learning, for which it is setting up a separate department.

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