Investing.com — Yahoo Inc (Nasdaq: Aaba)., Backed by the private capital firm Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), is prepared to offer for the Chrome website of Google (Nasdaq: Googl) If a court orders its sale, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
Brian Provost, general manager of Yahoo Search, testified in a Washington court that Chrome could be worth tens of billions of dollars, stating that it is possibly the most important strategic actor on the web, according to Bloomberg’s report.
He added that Yahoo and Apollo would pursue the asset if they were given the opportunity, the report said.
The testimony occurred during a remedy hearing in the antimonopoly case of the Department of Justice against Alphabet, Google Matrix.
The Department of Justice and several US states have argued that Google should be forced to sell Chrome to stop their domain in the Internet search, said the Bloomberg report.
Bloomberg also reported that Openai has shown interest in acquiring Chrome.
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