{"id":15126,"date":"2016-07-08T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15126"},"modified":"2016-07-08T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:48:24","slug":"mozilla-yahoo-contract-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/08\/mozilla-yahoo-contract-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla-Yahoo Contract Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/7\/7\/12116296\/marissa-mayer-deal-mozilla-yahoo-payment\">Kara Swisher<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=12050374\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2016\/7\/7\/12116296\/marissa-mayer-deal-mozilla-yahoo-payment\"><p>Under terms of a contract that has been seen by Recode, whoever acquires Yahoo might have to pay Mozilla annual payments of $375 million through 2019 if it does not think the buyer is one it wants to work with and walks away.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s according to a clause in the Silicon Valley giant&rsquo;s official agreement with the browser maker that CEO Marissa Mayer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recode.net\/2014\/11\/19\/11633074\/yahoo-replaces-google-as-mozilla-search-partner\">struck in late 2014 to become the default search engine<\/a> on the well-known Firefox browser in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla switched to Yahoo from Google after Mayer offered a much more lucrative deal that included what potential buyers of Yahoo say is an unprecedented term to protect Mozilla in a change-of-control scenario.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara Swisher (via Hacker News): Under terms of a contract that has been seen by Recode, whoever acquires Yahoo might have to pay Mozilla annual payments of $375 million through 2019 if it does not think the buyer is one it wants to work with and walks away. That&rsquo;s according to a clause in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,279,882,410,343,459],"class_list":["post-15126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-firefox","tag-marissa-mayer","tag-mozilla","tag-search","tag-yahoo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15127,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15126\/revisions\/15127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}