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Tag: default search engines

Judge denies Apple’s attempt to intervene in Google search engine lawsuit

Monday, February 3, 2025 5:09 pm1 Comment

Apple is attempting to defend its lucrative $20-billion-plus search engine agreement with Google amid Google’s antitrust lawsuit, but…

Google paid Apple $18 billion to be Safari’s default search engine in 2021 alone – NYT

Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:08 pmThursday, October 26, 20232 Comments

The New York Times on Thursday reports that Alphabet-subsidiary Google paid Apple “around $18 billion” to be Safari’s default search engine…

Google pays Apple $18 billion to $20 billion per year to be Safari’s default search engine – analyst

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 1:45 pm11 Comments

Alphabet pays Apple $18 billion to $20 billion per year for Google to be Safari’s default search engine, research and brokerage firm…

Google pays Apple $20 billion annually to be Safari’s default search engine

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 2:03 pmTuesday, February 21, 202311 Comments

Having access to Apple’s quality customers is very valuable. Google-parent Alphabet pays Apple as much as $20 billion to be Safari’s default…

Details about Apple default search deal shows how Google discourages competition

Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:54 amTuesday, November 24, 202015 Comments

The DOJ’s case against Google’s centers on its practice of spending billions of dollars a year to become the default search engine on…

Apple seeks to keep competitive secrets from Google in-house lawyers

Friday, November 20, 2020 5:44 pm8 Comments

In a filing Friday in federal court in Washington, Apple said confidential competitive secrets it provided to the U.S. DOJ for the Google …

DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 11:54 amWednesday, October 21, 202014 Comments

The U.S. DOJ antitrust lawsuit is targeting Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple. The Justice Department’s lawsuit…

Trump administration is drafting an executive order to take on alleged anti-conservative bias at social-media companies

Friday, August 9, 2019 1:44 pmFriday, August 9, 201918 Comments

President Trump vowed to study “all regulatory and legislative solutions” to combat the anti-conservative bias that he argues runs rampant on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook…

Google needs Apple so much more than most people think

Friday, July 26, 2019 12:56 pm7 Comments

Apple is fundamental to the Android company’s business plan…

Researchers: ‘No individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone’

Friday, July 26, 2019 10:00 amFriday, July 26, 20197 Comments

Apple’s iPhone has become the best indicator of wealth from among everyday items…

Top Apple’s App Store developers are earning 64% more than Google Play’s

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 4:52 pmWednesday, June 19, 201913 Comments

We analyzed quarterly consumer spending in apps from the top 100 publishers on the App Store and Google Play between Q1 2014 and 2019…

Google’s multi-billion dollar search deal with Apple took four months of working ‘every single day’

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 9:27 amTuesday, June 11, 20195 Comments

Google pays Apple billions of dollars to be the default search engine in the Safari browser on iPhones and Mac computers…

Goldman Sachs: Google paid Apple $9.5 billion in 2018 to be Safari’s default search engine

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 2:32 pmTuesday, February 12, 201913 Comments

Analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate more than 20 percent of Apple’s burgeoning services…

Why Google is willing to pay Apple $12 billion per year

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 3:57 pmWednesday, October 24, 201878 Comments

Apple has a 44% market share of U.S. smartphones and about a 12% share of PCs….

Analyst estimates Google will pay Apple $9 billion this year to remain default search

Friday, September 28, 2018 5:35 pmFriday, September 28, 201826 Comments

Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall said in a new research note that Google may be paying Apple $9 billion…

Apple bans Alex Jones’ Infowars app for ‘objectionable content’

Sunday, September 9, 2018 5:20 pm41 Comments

Apple Inc said on Friday that it had banned from its App Store the Infowars app belonging to popular U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones…

U.S. Senator Warner: Tech regulation is coming, ‘the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end’

Friday, September 7, 2018 10:28 amFriday, September 7, 201839 Comments

To Sen. Mark Warner, it’s not a question of whether Congress will regulate the tech industry but when…

U.S. Justice Department says probing social media companies for stifling ‘free exchange of ideas’

Thursday, September 6, 2018 10:43 pm35 Comments

The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it will meet with state attorneys general to discuss concerns…

Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts

Thursday, September 6, 2018 10:36 pmThursday, September 6, 201886 Comments

Twitter has permanently banned the accounts of right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones and InfoWars…

White House probes Google after President Trump accuses it of left-wing bias

Wednesday, August 29, 2018 8:58 amWednesday, August 29, 201839 Comments

President Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding ‘fair media’ coverage of him…

President Trump attacks ‘left-wing’ Google search results

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 9:55 amTuesday, August 28, 201886 Comments

President Donald Trump has accused Google of rigging the search results for the phrase “Trump news”…

WSJ tries really hard to gin up negative Apple news and fails laughably

Friday, May 4, 2018 10:01 am8 Comments

The licensing fees that Google-parent Alphabet Inc. pays to Apple Inc. to direct traffic to its search business…

Rising costs to remain default search on Apple devices worries Google investors

Tuesday, October 10, 2017 5:35 pmTuesday, October 10, 201722 Comments

Investors are obsessed with this money, called traffic acquisition costs, and they’re particularly worried…

Bernstein: Google to pay Apple $3 billion this year to remain the default search engine on iPhones and iPads

Monday, August 14, 2017 10:36 am20 Comments

Google is paying Apple billions of dollars to remain the default search engine on iPhones…

Google asks court to sanction Oracle lawyer for disclosing its secret $1 billion deal with Apple

Thursday, July 7, 2016 11:01 amThursday, July 7, 20162 Comments

In January, Oracle attorney Annette Hurst disclosed the fact that Google paid Apple $1 billion…

Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 for default search on iPhone and iPad

Friday, January 22, 2016 8:30 amFriday, January 22, 20169 Comments

Google Inc. is paying Apple Inc. a hefty fee to keep its search bar on iOS…

Apple’s default search engine: Is DuckDuckGo next in line?

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 3:30 pmWednesday, March 4, 201544 Comments

Apple’s core philsophy and DuckDuckGo’s are stunningly well aligned….

Google has major headaches going into 2015 caused by Apple, Facebook

Friday, December 5, 2014 4:27 pmFriday, December 5, 201426 Comments

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has downgraded Google…

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