According to transcripts from a significant antitrust trial involving Alphabet, the CEO of privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo revealed that discussions with Apple for a potential partnership fell through due to Google’s massive contracts with the smartphone manufacturer. Gabriel Weinberg, who also founded the company, testified Sept. 21 about the impact of Google’s $10 billion in annual payments to DuckDuckGo to smartphone manufacturers and others to keep the search engine the default on computers or mobile devices. Some of his testimony took place out of public view. A redacted transcript unsealed…
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