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All voted this support the cannabis legalization taskforce including the mayor. Lets have you tell us what we should do next. What is the priority. We cant do all of this at once but if you tell us, you know, lets take the low hanging fruit and do the ease astuff first, well do that first and come back with recommendations for regulation and go off the people that know betjure write all the words and go to the committee and debate and make all the presentations. That is the type of thing that wi...

A former executive from Samsung testified at the landmark Google antitrust trial that the tech giant actively hindered efforts to expand a search app offering on Samsung smartphones, a demonstration of the pressure tactics Google allegedly uses to protect its monopoly.

A former executive at Samsung Electronics' venture capital arm revealed in an antitrust trial that his proposal to install Branch Metrics' software in Samsung smartphones faced resistance due to pressure from Google.

WASHINGTON — A former executive at Samsung Electronics' venture capital arm who proposed that mobile app developer Branch Metrics' software offering be expanded in Samsung smartphones faced pushback due to pressure from Google, he said on Thursday (Oct 5) in a landmark antitrust trial against the Alphabet unit. Patrick Chang, who worked at Samsung Next to invest in innovative companies,...

During Googles antitrust trial, evidence surfaced showing that Google tried to prevent Samsung from picking another search engine.

Chang testified that Samsung also faced pushback from wireless carries

Former executive at Samsung faced backlash from Google when proposing Branch Metrics software be expanded to phones

On Day 17, we heard another account of how Google's default agreements prevented Branch Metrics from ever fully launching.

Samsung: Branch Metrics founder and former CEO Alexander Austin testified in late September that his company eliminated some of its softwares functions to fend off Googles complaints as it sought to make deals with wireless carriers and smartphone makers. Branch had to ensure that its searches remained within apps and never linked to the web, Austin noted.

Latest accusations suggest that Google stopped Samsung from using the Branch app and paid billions of dollars to be the default search engine. - SamMobile