When Google discovered in March that Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone seller, was thinking of ditching its search engine for Microsoft’s Bing, there was “panic”. 

Of course there was.  According to The New York Times, which carried the report, “an estimated $3bn in annual revenue was at stake with the Samsung contract. An additional $20bn is tied to a similar Apple contract that will be up for renewal this year.”..

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