{"id":88739,"date":"2025-08-22T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88739\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:59:10","slug":"germanys-ecosia-proposes-stewardship-to-run-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88739\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Germany&#8217;s Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Alphabet&#8217;s Google Chrome web browser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">According to the proposal, Google would legally separate Chrome into a foundation, retaining ultimate ownership and intellectual property rights and give Ecosia operational responsibility for 10 years, Ecosia said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Ecosia plans to reinvest part of Chrome&#8217;s profits in climate action under Ecosia\u2019s governance, with the remainder returned to Google as compensation for the stewardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Earlier in August, Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Chrome, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the browser&#8217;s billions of users pivotal to the AI search race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Germany&#8217;s Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,52449,192,52450,61],"class_list":["post-88739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ecosia","tag-google","tag-stewardship","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}