Mozilla's Acquisition of Pulse

Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, purchased the team that built Pulse, a tool designed to promote collaboration in today's hybrid work settings. Pulse enables its users to manage their Slack presence while also forming "focus times" to allow for uninterrupted productivity. This could be an advantage to Mozilla, as it may now be able to come out with products tailored for the business world. The Pulse service utilized machine learning to comprehend a user's work habits but with respect to their data privacy. Google increased the popularity of their email product quickly by making large amounts of memory space offered at no cost. Mozilla is now focusing on privacy, in the same manner that Google made free features a must-have for its product. That perk is what makes the acquisition of Pulse interesting because their machine learning proficiency could be utilized to construct privacy-oriented products for customers (and possibly commercial businesses). Steve Teixeira was chosen by Mozilla to start work in August 2022; he used to be Vice President of Product for Machine Learning and Data platforms at Twitter. Apart from announcing their plan to develop Pocket, Mozilla did not declare precisely what type of new products they will work on. All they made public was that they were delighted to have the Pulse team bring their knowledge to the increasing portfolio of products.

(source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mozilla-acquires-pulse-a-hybrid-workplace-collaboration-company/473091/)