Larry Page Downplays the Importance of Android Asset to Google

Larry Page Downplays the Importance of Android Asset to Google

Google’s courtroom battle with Oracle started on April 16 in California continues with Larry Page, Google’s CEO, testifying that the Android software platform is not very valuable to the company’s success, although he admitted that Android is still an important part of the search engine’s future. Page statement came as a response to David Boies’ questions, the same lawyer who cross-examined Bill Gates during Microsoft’s antitrust suit in the late 1990s. At the center of the legal battle between the two technology giants is Oracle’s allegation that Google used Oracle’s Java technology for its Android operating system without Oracle’s permission.
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