Report: Google’s money was “key” factor in Apple rejecting Bing purchase

Ars Technica
By Kevin PurdySep 29, 2023, 11:39 am413 pts
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A few years before Microsoft went all-in on a ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, the company had another idea for its perennial, also-ran search engine: sell it to Apple. A report in Bloomberg, sourced from people familiar with the early theoretical sales talks, states that…

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