Written by - Posted Tuesday, January 2, 2007 at 4:11 PM PT While the most interesting thing about Mozilla is most definitely its excellent Firefox browser, it s also noteworthy that the non-profit makes quite a bit of money. Today, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker wrote on her blog that the Mozilla Foundation (which owns the subsidiary Mozilla Corporation, created in part to deal with the cash flow) .
Baker said the bulk of the money comes from search engine relationships like the crucial one Mozilla brokered with Google for default search box placement in the chrome of the Firefox browser.
These are some very profitable arrangements, ones that have opened up a new category of business model now used by browser and plug-in companies, . Mozilla spent $8.2 million in 2005, leaving $44.
7 million in profit for what Baker calls a reserve fund. Written by - Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 at 1:00 AM PT Brand name cellphone makers are finally beginning to realize that if they need to survive falling cell phone prices and declining margins, they need to start focusing on software and services. Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson, all made moves last week, taking further steps in this direction.
, a Silicon Valley based company that is a RIM competitor, and had raised $200 million or so in venture capital. , a social networking start-up, and Sony Ericsson , the Symbian derivative OS maker.
These moves come in the wake of news that on three platforms - Linux, Symbian and Microsoft.
Any handset maker who wants to sell through their channel in the future will have to serve up the most interesting package of applications on their handset. Which means software, a business where handset makers are not particularly good at. Hence the buying frenzy.
Written by - Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 6:26 AM PT 
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