Google Pays Mozilla $300 Million Annual Dowry

Mozilla on Tuesday said that it has renewed a deal making Google the default search engine in the nonprofit organization's open-source Firefox Web browsing software."We're pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google," Mozilla chief executive Gary Kovacs said in a release.Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The agreement extends for three years Google's status as fallback engine for Internet searches made by hundreds of millions of Firefox users worldwide, according to Kovacs.

's recent ~$1b 3-year deal with Mozilla for to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox browser users, which comprise over a quarter of the global browser/search market, has much broader and more serious antitrust implications for 's already very tenuous antitrust situation than most everyone appreciates. It is telling that ...

Mozilla, the company that makes the Firefox Web browser, will begin selling phones running its new mobile operating system this summer in five countries: Venezuela, Poland, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain.

Apple is getting ~$1 billion per year from Google to make Google the search default on iOS devices, according to a Morgan Stanley report.

Advertisers are furious at Mozilla's sudden decision to make future versions of its popular Firefox browser block tracking cookies automatically.