This is the tool by which Google paid billion dollars to Apple – The Financial

Google will Apple is paying a hefty fee to keep your search bar at the iPhone.
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received billion from your opponent in 2014, according to a transcript of the trial by copyright that Oracle will engage against Google.

The giant search engines has an agreement with Apple that gives the iPhone maker a percentage of the revenue generated by Google through the Apple device, Oracle said a lawyer at a hearing of 14 January in federal court.

The rumors about how much Google paid for being on the Apple iPhone have been circulating for years, but companies never made publicly available.

Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for Apple, and Aaron Stein, a spokesman for Google, declined to comment on the information disclosed in court.

The revenue sharing arrangement reveals how far should Google to get people to keep using their search on mobile devices . It also demonstrates how Apple benefits economically from the Google business model based on advertising, which Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has been criticized as an intrusion of privacy.

Oracle has been to demand of Google from 2010 to use its Java software to develop Android, without having paid.

The case returned to US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco after a brief stint in the Supreme Court of the United States, where Google lost a bid to drop the case.

The damages that Oracle now claims could exceed one billion dollars, as it expanded the demand to include the latest versions of Android.

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Annette Hurst, Oracle lawyer who disclosed details of the agreement between Google and Apple in the hearing last week, said a witness to Google questioned during the stage of pre-trial information had said that “at the time the revenue sharing was 34 percent “. It was unclear in the transcript if that percentage corresponded to the percentage that Google retained or paid to Apple.

A Google lawyer objected that was unveiled information and tried to get the judge ignored the mention of percentage in cars.

“That percentage was just mentioned should be blocked,” said attorney Robert Van Nest, according to the transcript. “Here we are talking about a hypothetical data. There is a number of public knowledge. “

The presiding judge then rejected Google’s request that the transcript of the information is not accessible to the public.

Google asked then to Alsup to block transcription and draw up saying they revealed it could severely affect their ability to negotiate similar agreements with other companies. Apple coincided with Google’s request in a separate presentation.

‘highly sensitive’

“The terms of the deal with Google Apple are highly sensitive to companies, “Google said in his presentation on 20 January. “Both Apple and Google have always considered this information as highly confidential.”

The transcript disappeared without a trace in the electronic court records at 15:00 Pacific Standard Time, without any indication that the court to rule on Google’s request to remove it.