Erin Woo

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Erin Woo

Source: BloombergApple is “actively looking at” adding AI search options to its Safari browser and has had discussions with the AI search provider Perplexity, an Apple executive testified on Wednesday during the Google search monopoly remedies trial, Bloomberg reported. The executive, senior vice president of services Eddy Cue, said that Apple would prefer to keep its Google Search default deal, worth an estimated $20 billion a year for Apple.

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Erin Woo

As OpenAI moves ahead with a corporate restructuring to appease its investors as well as regulators, it needs to get clearance from Microsoft, its biggest outside shareholder and business partner. One part of OpenAI’s plan involves reducing the percentage of revenue it shares with Microsoft. In financial projections OpenAI shared with investors, that percentage would drop by at least half by the end of this decade.

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Erin Woo

As the latest phase of the antitrust legal battle that could reshape Google’s business nears a conclusion, the tech giant seems likely to emerge battered but not broken up. Two weeks into a three-week trial meant to decide how Google should be overhauled to curb its search monopoly—which a judge found last August violated antitrust law—the judge, Amit Mehta, has signaled support for forcing Google to share its search data with rivals.

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Erin Woo

Source: The Information The Justice Department’s proposal that Google be forced to share its search data with rivals in order to restore search engine competition used a 2010 deal Google struck with Yahoo Japan as the “foundation” for the proposal, a lawyer for the DOJ said in court on Friday. Google has argued that the Department of Justice’s data sharing proposal would create privacy concerns and make it “unviable” for Google to continue investing in research and development at the same rate.

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Erin Woo

Source: The Information Mozilla earned $570 million in revenue last year, 85% of which came from Google as a result of a deal Mozilla has to share ad revenue from Google search queries coming via Mozilla’s Firefox browser, the chief financial officer of the internet nonprofit testified on Friday.