Brazil is new ground for Qihoo x Baidu conflict

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Jaspion

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Basically, PSafe has managed to get the Brazilian Justice to order Baidu to remove their DU Speed Booster smartphone app from Google's app store. PSafe claims the Baidu app damages PSafe's image -- upon inspecting the user's smartphone Baidu DU Speed Booster suggests that the user is at risk by having PSafe's product in their smartphone. The judge who signed the decision affirms that Baidu has failed to comply with an earlier ruling that they must remove the warning that says PSafe is a threat. The new ruling also dictates Baidu will have to recant and allow users to reinstall the PSafe app from within the Baidu app. Failure to comply will generate R$100,000.00 in daily fines (approximately $35,000.00 US dollars). The app is still available for download, and Baidu claim they have not been officially notified yet.

Qihoo is one of three funds to have invested together R$30,000,000.00 (roughly $10,000,000.00 US dollars) in PSafe in 2013. The battle between Baidu and Qihoo has been raging since 2002.

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ok well please edit your post because in dark theme it looks like this. by the way what is psafe??? i know that their AV is a copy and paste of qihoo total security
 

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Jaspion

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ok well please edit your post because in dark theme it looks like this. by the way what is psafe??? i know that their AV is a copy and paste of qihoo total security
PSafe is a Brazilian startup company in which Qihoo has invested, and to whom they've lent technology. PSafe is not a clone, according to their own words.

I tried removing the formatting, and tested the post here with the dark theme; it should be working now. Thanks.
 
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Janl92l

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Cant they stay away from earch other? So useless to fight every time again someone. Thats capitalism.
 

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Cant they stay away from earch other? So useless to fight every time again someone. Thats capitalism.
There are plenty of companies that don't bash their competitors, usually due to the fact their CEOs know that competition makes products, goods and services better, which in the end benefits the consumer.
 
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