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Google pays Apple 36% of its Safari search advertising revenue
Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising made through the Safari browser, the main economics expert…
Alphabet CEO defends paying Apple to make Google Safari’s default search engine
Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice…
DOJ’s antitrust case to break up Google hinges on four iPhone Taps and a swipe
The core of the U.S. DOJ’s argument that Google is an illegal monopoly is a process that involves four taps and a swipe on an iPhone…
Google’s Pichai worried over ‘bad optics,’ poor ‘user experience’ with search engine deal with Apple
Google’s Sundar Pichai raised concerns years before he became the company’s chief executive officer that its deal with Apple had “bad optics”…
Microsoft pondered selling Bing search engine to Apple in 2020
Microsoft discussed selling its Bing search engine to Apple around 2020, a deal that would have replaced Google as the default option…
Microsoft complains that Apple used Bing as a ‘bargaining chip’ in Google negotiations
A Microsoft executive complained that when it came to the search-engine wars with Alphabet subsidiary Google, the company’s Bing was…
Apple says iMessage service not popular enough to be ‘gatekeepers’ under EU’s new Digital Markets Act
Apple says that their iMessage service is insufficiently popular to be designated as a “gatekeeper” under the EU’s new Digital Market Act…
Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing hits 100 million daily users
Shares of Microsoft rose 1% after the new AI-powered Bing reached 100 million daily active users. The new Bing offers search, chat…
Microsoft brings ChatGPT-powered Bing to Apple iPhone and iPad apps
Two weeks ago, Microsoft introduced the world to the all new AI ChatGPT-powered Bing. Since then, Microsoft has welcomed more than a million…
Is Apple preparing to launch its own search engine?
The rumor mill is revving up ahead of WWDC 2022 with an oldie but a goodie: Apple is prepping the launch its own search engine …
Apple releases first public betas of iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3
Just one day after providing the betas to developers, Apple today seeded the first public betas of the upcoming iOS 14.3 and iPadOS 14.3…
U.S. DOJ cites Apple deal in antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google
The United State’s Department of Justice on Tuesday filed antitrust charges against Alphabet’s Google that focus on the company’s…
Bing.com launches an interactive COVID-19 tracking map
Microsoft’s Bing.com is working to help keep people up-to-date on the spread of COVID-19 with a new interactive COVID-19 tracking map …
Should Apple have its own search engine?
Apple CEO Tim Cook was made to answer a very uncomfortable question…
Tim Cook: Why Apple accepts billions annually from Google to be Safari’s default search engine despite privacy concerns
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t name names when he spoke out against the privacy practices…
DuckDuckGo: What it’s like to use a search engine that values your privacy
DuckDuckGo prides itself on not tracking users…
Why Apple replaced Microsoft’s Bing with Google search for Siri and Spotlight
Apple just worsened Bing’s already pathetic 2% share in mobile search…
Apple switches default from Bing to Google for Siri web search on iOS and Spotlight on Mac
Apple is switching the default provider of its web searches from Siri…
Apple’s Mac is now a threat to Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Later this year, Apple will release macOS Sierra, the next version of its Mac operating system…
Google asks court to sanction Oracle lawyer for disclosing its secret $1 billion deal with Apple
In January, Oracle attorney Annette Hurst disclosed the fact that Google paid Apple $1 billion…
Google is making a keyboard for Apple iPhones and iPads
Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company’s search engine…
Is Apple preparing to take $8 billion from Google?
Apple may hit Google with an $8 billion charge on its profits…
No Safe Harbor: EU privacy ruling hits Apple, Google, Facebook, others
A major European court victory for privacy advocates raises doubts about how U.S. tech giants Apple, Alphabet-owned Google and Facebook…
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pregnant with identical twin girls
Since this is a unique time in Yahoo’s transformation, I plan to approach the pregnancy and delivery as I did with my son three years ago…
Why I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo
While its main draw is privacy, DuckDuckGo has another killer feature…
Apple may dump Google as Safari’s default search engine
Apple may remove Google as its default mobile search engine on Safari…
Why Apple should buy DuckDuckGo
One of the most important, hardest-to-build, and useful Internet services…
Yahoo or Microsoft can terminate search deal anytime on or after October 1st
Yahoo and Microsoft’s 10-year search pact could end well before the decade is out…
Microsoft loses exclusivity in Yahoo search deal shake up
Today Microsoft and Yahoo announced that the companies amended their search partnership…
Former Yahoo CEO Levinsohn: Marissa Mayer may have to go
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may have to leave the tech giant soon…
Apple’s default search engine: Is DuckDuckGo next in line?
Apple’s core philsophy and DuckDuckGo’s are stunningly well aligned….
Analyst: Google faces ‘significant’ blow if Apple dumps them from Safari
Google, which has seen its share of the U.S. search market already decline…
Yahoo gains further US search share; Google falls below 75% for first time
January saw Yahoo further increase the gain it made in US search share last month…
Microsoft, Yahoo vie to become Apple Safari’s default search option
Google Maps and YouTube are no longer bundled as default apps…
Firefox dumps Google for default U.S. search, switches to Yahoo/Bing
In a major departure for both Mozilla and Yahoo, Firefox’s default search engine…
Apple’s direct assault against Google and Android
I wonder why Apple doesn’t just buy DuckDuckGo…
Apple drops Google for Bing as iOS, OS X default Spotlight search engine
Microsoft’s Bing search engine celebrated its fifth anniversary…
Is Apple’s next big thing search?
Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask Network, AOL, DuckDuckGo, and even Dogpile…
Why doesn’t Apple do its own search engine?
In 2013, Apple sold about 150 million iPhones and about 70 million iPads…
DuckDuckGo search engine surges 33% in wake of PRISM scandal
The ‘anonymous’ search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal…
Apple makes Siri smarter in iOS 7, dumps Google search for Microsoft’s Bing as Siri’s default search engine
With iOS 7, Apple has not only made its Siri virtual assistant smarter…
