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zanny on July 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla could walk away from Yahoo deal and get mo...

It is also a bit of a conflict of interest on Google's part to support Mozilla. They have a competing app ecosystem, and while supporting the Firefox Marketplace and Chrome App Store are actually relatively simple for HTML5 apps, they probably would rather not have the competition at all.

zabraxias on July 8, 2016 [–]

The only conflict of interest left is the browser itself. A $300M deal for Google to keep a competitor's searches their way is almost too cheap.

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