Google paid Apple $20 Billion to be default search engine in 2022
The ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet by the Justice Department has revealed that Google paid Apple a staggering $20 billion in 2022 for default search engine status.
The ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet by the Justice Department has revealed that Google paid Apple a staggering $20 billion in 2022 for default search engine status.
Apple's Zurich Vision Lab has moved on from the Apple Car and has been poaching Google staff to work on the future of Apple's AI products.
Google is shutting down its subscription-based VPN by Google One service later in 2024, with the feature heading to the Google graveyard due to being underused by its customers.
Google is going to provide all users of Google Photos access to its AI-powered editing tools on the iPhone, and without requiring a subscription for most users.
Rumors suggest Google is looking to offer premium generative AI features just as Apple is allegedly planning an AI App Store for iOS 18.
The new beta release of iOS 17.5 contains code referring to the now long-promised expansion of anti-stalking measures for AirTags and other tracking devices.
Apple, Google, and a number of other tech companies have failed to convince a court that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's rule denying some inter partes reviews of patents is illegal.
While Apple has publicly only said that it will add RCS messaging support to iOS later in 2024, a Google announcement appears to pin it down further.
The paused courtroom fight between Apple and Epic Games in Australia is set to resume, but with a similar lawsuit against Google being incorporated into the same trial.
Apple could have owned Bing in 2018, with a court filing revealing that Microsoft offered to sell the search engine to the iPhone maker.
Google's Bard has been replaced by Gemini, and the new, improved AI assistant is now available within the iOS Google app.
A class-action lawsuit against Apple and Google suggested the company CEOs met in secret to collude on the suppression of the search market, but it has been dismissed by a Judge in California.
Even as YouTube itself declines to make a native app for Apple's new Apple Vision Pro, a developer has done it for them with Juno.
Google Chrome's recent update introduces generative AI capabilities to enhance browser themes, assist in text composition, and incorporate a feature familiar to Safari users.
Google has followed after Apple in removing a number of major crypto exchange apps from the Google Play Store in India, after regulators deemed them as operating illegally in the country.
Japan is preparing regulations that will force Apple and Google to allow alternative App Stores, and impose fines on both for antitrust issues regarding OS market share and preferential search results.
For three years, we've been hearing about Epic Games' fight with both Apple and Google over how App Stores operate, with the decisions going in wildly different directions in each case. Let's look at why.
US states and customers of the Google Play Store are to share in a $700 million payout as part of Google's settlement of one of its antitrust cases.
The European Commission has sent a formal request to Apple and Google asking the tech giants how they identify "systemic risks" to consumers in their respective app stores.
The Epic versus Google case has reached a significant milestone as the jury ruled that Google violated California and federal antitrust laws, but years of appeals are sure to follow.
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