Google pay one billion US dollars to Apple to maintain search engine in iPhone – Expreso (Peru)

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

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

So far
never transcended much Google paid to 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.

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

Annette Hurst, Oracle’s lawyer, revealed the details of the agreement between Google and Apple last week at a hearing in a court in San Francisco, he said a witness interviewed Google before the start of the trial had assured “that at a time when the percentage of revenue reached 34%. “

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Bloomberg said the transcript of the hearing, for which there is no electronic copy, not clear whether the figure refers the percentage with which Google is or it is paid to Apple.

The financial means
said a Google lawyer complained of the published information and tried to get the judge did not include in reference to the transcript fee of 34%.

“That percentage has been mentioned should be kept confidential,” said Google lawyer Robert Van Nest, according to that transcript.

“We’re talking about (numbers) hypothetical here. That is not a public figure, “said Van Nest.

Google said that the publication of such information may affect your ability to negotiate similar agreements with other companies. (EFE)