It appears that the Mozilla Corporation has decided to trim a few of its side-projects. On Thursday, Mozilla announced to its employees that it will lay off most of its connected devices team, including Ari Jaaksi, the team’s senior vice-president. Roughly fifty people will be laid off in total.
Mozilla’s connected devices team had been working on a variety of projects , including a crowd-sourced air quality monitoring system, a ” personal agent ,” and a product to assist those with a visual impairment.