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Google pays $22.5 million to settle Apple Safari charges

Google Inc will pay $22.5 million to settle charges it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.

 

Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to be the Default Search Engine in Safari

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According to one analyst, Apple made $1 billion from Google last year to make it the default search engine in Safari.

 

Microsoft: Google bypassed IE privacy settings too

Discovery comes just days after Web giant was found to be sidestepping the user privacy preferences in Apple's Safari. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Security.

 

Google's iPhone Tracking

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The web giant and other ad companies bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices and computers – tracking the online habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked.

 

IE9 can't stop Microsoft's browser slump

IE9 can't stop Microsoft's browser slump

The March launches of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Firefox 4 failed to stop Microsoft's and Mozilla's decline in browser share, new Web usage data shows.

 

Google Chrome Passes Safari to Nab Third in Browser Race

Just last week, Google finally released official betas for its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux.

 

Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome

The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times.

 

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