For Google Play, Dominating Android World Was ‘Existential’
- Google paid Samsung $8 billion over four years, jurors told
- Epic Games is trying to show Alphabet unit undercut rivalry
Google agreed to pay $8 billion over four years to Samsung Electronics Co. to make its search engine, voice assistant and Play Store the default on the company’s mobile devices, according to testimony presented by Epic Games Inc.
James Kolotouros, Vice President for Partnerships at Google, testified Monday under questioning by an Epic lawyer in the San Francisco trial that Google devised plans to share app store revenue with Android mobile device makers to ensure their products were preinstalled with Google Play on home screens.