{"id":1371,"date":"2016-01-25T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2016-01-30T01:32:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T07:32:58","slug":"google-paid-1-bil-for-search-spot-on-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/google-paid-1-bil-for-search-spot-on-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Google paid $1 bil for search spot on iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/d5a1fa55dff66930280d815487d63bb70d20fca1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/d5a1fa55dff66930280d815487d63bb70d20fca1.jpg\" alt=\"d5a1fa55dff66930280d815487d63bb70d20fca1\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/d5a1fa55dff66930280d815487d63bb70d20fca1.jpg 512w, http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/d5a1fa55dff66930280d815487d63bb70d20fca1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Internet giant Google paid Apple a billion dollars in 2014 to be the go-to search tool on iPhones, Bloomberg reported, citing court documents.<\/p>\n<p>The rare glimpse into financial figures typically kept private by Google and Apple was provided by an Oracle attorney during a court hearing in San Francisco last week, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>A transcript of the proceeding was not among documents available at the court\u2019s digital filing system on Friday, in the wake of a move by Google lawyers to have it redacted and sealed.<\/p>\n<p>An Oracle attorney had revealed that Google, a subsidiary of corporate parent Alphabet, paid a billion dollars in the year 2014 alone to secure its position as the default search engine on iPhones, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>Google lawyers argued that Oracle \u201cimproperly disclosed highly sensitive, confidential information\u201d regarding revenues and profits related to its Android mobile operating software, a copy of the motion showed.<\/p>\n<p>Android revenue details cited by an Oracle attorney in open court last week had been labeled \u201cHighly Confidential &#8211; Attorney\u2019s Eyes Only,\u201d Google contended.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, an Oracle lawyer also said in court that Google had $22 billion in profit from Android, which it makes available free to mobile device makers.<\/p>\n<p>The first Android-powered smartphone launched in 2008, and the software now powers more than 80 percent of smartphones sold worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were made public briefly during a long-running legal fight over whether copyright-protected elements of Java code made by Oracle were used in Android without permission.<\/p>\n<p>While Apple is not a party in the case, Oracle lawyers argued that the impressive sum of money Google takes in from Android must be factored in by the court. <\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Internet giant Google paid Apple a billion dollars in 2014 to be the go-to search tool on iPhones, Bloomberg reported, citing court documents. The rare glimpse into financial figures typically kept private by Google and Apple was provided by an Oracle attorney during a court hearing in San Francisco last week, according to Bloomberg. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}