Google paid a billion dollars to Apple to maintain search engine in iPhone – RPP News

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Google paid 1,000 million dollars to Apple in 2014 to maintain its search bar on iPhone, according to a transcript court who had access to the Internet portal Bloomberg Business.

Google has an agreement with Apple that the iPhone maker gets a percentage of revenue Google gets through the smartphone, according to a transcription of demand by copyright Oracle against Google, said the middle.

So far Google had never paid much transcended Apple. The two companies declined to comment.

Bloomberg Business recalls that the revenue sharing agreement underlines the efforts that have to perform Google for its search tools are used in mobile devices.

Apple also demonstrates how benefits Google’s advertising business, criticized by the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, who argues that business model invades the privacy of users.

Annette Hurst, attorney Oracle, which revealed the details of the agreement between Google and Apple last

week at a hearing in a court in San Francisco, said a witness interviewed Google before the start of the trial had assured “that at one point the percentage of revenue reached 34% “. EFE

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