Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google’s Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it.
The information came out during the fourth day of the Justice Department’s remedies trial to rectify Google’s search monopoly. The DOJ has — among other proposals — requested Judge Amit Mehta break up Google by requiring it sell its Chrome browser, which the agency says is a key distribution channel for its popular search engine that’s amassed too much power for anyone else to compete. Yahoo isn’t the only company interested in buying Chrome. While DuckDuckGo’s CEO said they wouldn’t be able to afford it, witnesses from Perplexity and OpenAI both expressed interest in the popular browser on the stand this week.
He estimated the deal would cost tens of billions of dollars, and said Yahoo would be able to secure that funding with the backing of its owner, Apollo Global Management. Apollo actually owns a browser brand that was at the center of a different antitrust case, but Provost said he wouldn’t consider it an active browser. The brand’s name? NetScape.
Yahoo wants to buy Chrome | The Verge (Apr 25, 2025, 6:24 AM GMT+9)
Legacy search brand が皮肉に見えてしまう
FlickrもTumblrもダメにした所が買収してうまく行くのか
買収されたらChromeを使うのを辞めるしかない
記事の最後でYahooの親会社 Apollo Global Management が NetScape のブラウザブランドを所有しているとありますが、これ完全に皮肉ってますね
やっぱ英文の情報読んだ方がいいですね
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