US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown
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Satya Nadella says Bing was prepared to lose billions just to be Apple’s search default.
We’re about 90 minutes into Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s testimony, and his stance so far has been simple: Google’s status as the default search engine has crushed Bing not just as a business, but as a product. Without scale and user data, he said, there’s just no keeping up.
Nadella also said he was prepared to give Apple all of the economic upside of a search deal if it made Bing the default. And he estimated that might cost Microsoft as much as $15 billion a year — but it’d be worth it to make Bing a bigger and more competitive product, he said.
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