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Google pulls YouTube from Amazon devices, saying it isn't playing fair

Retaliation for Amazon's website not selling some Google products

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Google said Amazon’s retail website doesn’t sell competing products like the Google Home smart speaker or Google’s Chromecast streaming device Photo: Reuters

Jack Nicas | WSJ
Google said it is pulling YouTube from some Amazon.com Inc. devices in retaliation for Amazon refusing to sell many Google products, escalating a battle between two tech titans as their businesses increasingly overlap.

Google said Tuesday it had cut access to YouTube on Amazon’s smart speakers with screens, called the Echo Show, and that it plans to block YouTube on Amazon’s Fire TV media-streaming device on Jan. 1.

Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc. , said Amazon’s retail website doesn’t sell competing products like the Google Home smart speaker or Google’s Chromecast streaming device. Google also claimed that Amazon’s Prime Video lineup

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