Google Apple and the high price of being frenemies.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Matt Levin. We've made it to the end of the week, which means it's time for Marketplace Tech Byets, our look back at the week which means it's time for Marketplace Tech Bites our look back at the

week's biggest tech headlines on the show today meta strikes a deal to return to

China but not with social media we'll also talk about the ransomware attack on a major Chinese bank

and how the Biden administration thinks American companies should respond to cyber extortion.

But first, more revelations on Google and Apple's

complicated relationship. Earlier in its federal antitrust trial Google

said it paid Apple 18 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine on

iPhone web browsers. The feds say that's 18 billion dollars worth of evidence of

anti-competitive behavior.

And then this week a witness for Google

accidentally disclosed the company was sharing 36%

of ad revenue it made from those searches with Apple.

I'm joined by Anita Ramaswami,

columnists at Reuters breaking views about what happened.

You know, Google and Apple, it was reported.

We're trying really hard to keep this number a secret and the way it

ended up slipping out was during witness testimony by a University of Chicago professor Kevin Murphy.

And it's not clear whether this 36% is above and beyond that in addition to it.

But either way, we're talking tens of billions of dollars and just having such a key detail

of that arrangement between Apple and Google was really material in the trial.

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