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Google's 'highest priority' was to re-secure search exclusivity in Verizon revenue sharing deal, evidence at US monopoly trial shows

A Google executive’s “highest priority” while renegotiating a revenue sharing agreement with Verizon was to re-secure exclusivity for the tech giant’s search products on Android phones the US carrier sold, evidence unveiled at the government’s historic search monopoly trial showed.
Google also halved the money it was paying Verizon up

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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