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and Samsung to make sure that it is the default search engine on iPhone and Galaxy handsets. The latest testimony to come out of the trial includes some interesting comments from Patrick Chang, a former executive who worked at Samsung's Venture Capital unit, Samsung Next.
Chang's job at Samsung Next was to find innovative companies for Samsung to invest in and he spoke with the powers that be at the company about adding an app called Branch to its Android handsets. Branch is a search engine that searches within apps to answer queries rather than looking through the internet.
Alexander Austin, the founder and former CEO of Branch Metrics, the company that owns the Branch search engine, testified last month that the company dropped some of the software's functions to appease Google's complaints as it tried to shake hands on deals with carriers and smartphone manufacturers. For example, Austin said that its searches had to remain inside apps and not be based on the web.
One key piece of evidence was revealed by the Justice Department. An email from August 2020 written by Samsung executive David Eun complained that"Google is clearly buying its way to squelch competitors." However, there was testimony suggesting that Samsung had legitimate reasons why it didn't want to use the Branch Search app. A Google attorney cross-examined Samsung Next's Chang who testified that Samsung might have been uninterested in using Branch because the software was clunky and few users clicked on search result links.A discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative.
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