Apple, wooed by Google’s multibillion-dollar paycheck, ignored DuckDuckGo for Safari’s default search engine

The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because the smartphone maker was reluctant to give up Google’s multibillion-dollar paychecks, according to new transcripts of a landmark antitrust trial of the Alphabet unit. Gabriel Weinberg, who also founded the...