Today's Business Headlines: 10/9/23
Google CEO Sundar Pichai once warned top executives that the company risked bad “optics” by pushing for its search engine to be the only option on Apple’s browser, according to emails submitted in the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust trial.
“I know we are insisting on default, but at the same time I think we should encourage them to have Yahoo as a choice in the pull down or some other easy option,” Pichai said in the email, On Tuesday, Justice Department attorneys also questioned Google executive Joan Braddi, who played a key role in negotiating the company’s search deals with Apple and was included in Pichai’s messages.
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