Overview

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai has testified in court for the second time in two weeks, defending the company's business practices in an ongoing antitrust trial.
• Epic Games is accusing Google of using its market dominance to thwart competing Android app stores, thereby driving up prices and discouraging innovation.
• Google's defense hinges on the assertion that it faces major competition from Apple's iPhone, mobile operating system, and app store.
• Pichai confirmed that Google shared 36% of its ad revenue from Safari search queries with Apple in 2021, amounting to a significant portion of the $26.3 billion that Google paid for all of its 2021 deals.
• Evidence submitted during Pichai's testimony revealed that the Google Play Store generated an operating profit of $4.4 billion in the first half of 2020.