In lunar movement, the embarrassment with the search engine offered the purchase of Chrome from Google for $ 34.5 billion in an unimposed offer, Reuters reportedAnd the embarrassment was confirmed by TechCrunch.
The TC Terms of the Offer says embarrassing the obligation to keep up the Chrome, Chrome, Open Source and further invest in it. The offer of embarrassment includes the promise of investing $ 3 billion in the Open Source project.
Embarrassment also guarantees that he does not change the default default Chrome users, including the default search engine. This signifies that embarrassment guarantees to go away Google as a search engine, and not to enrich his own option powered by artificial intelligence.
It was unattainable to contact Google to comment. TechCrunch will update the article if the company responds.
This offer will happen after the Department of Justice proposed in March that Google could be forced to sell Chrome after the judge said that the technological giant was illegally acting to keep up the monopoly in online search. Google didn’t conform to sell Chrome and swore to fight the decision.
The spokesman for embarrassment believes that the court will soon determine the conditions of remedies, perhaps this month. (Google is also fighting with one other federal matter, in which the judge said that he illegally monopolized ADTech, and the Dojat suggests that Google is forced to sell two Adtech products or otherwise breaking promoting activities).
When the state for the first time he proposed that Google was selling Chrome, each OpenAI and Embarrassment He expressed interest in the purchase. Given that Chrome is a dominant browser with 68% Marketshare According to Statcounter, If the Chrome court provisions should be sold, without a doubt, others around the world would also wish to bid.
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Interestingly, the general director of Rival Search Engine Duckducko testified in April that Chrome could possibly be value “over $ 50 billion”, Bloomberg reported at that point. If the offer of embarrassment succeeds, it might be considered an opportunity.
Despite this, this Chrome offer is much more than embarrassment from investors and more than the current startup valuation. Until now, temptation has collected about $ 1.5 billion, Pitchbook estimates, including an extension round of $ 100 million collected last month, which valued him at $ 18 billion, Bloomberg reported.
In the meantime, embarrassment last month launched her own browser called Comet, in order to develop activities related to Search AI without the need for customer support through a browser, especially belonging to the most important rival of Google.
By the way, last month, embarrassment apparently submitted an offer to hook up with the thicket.