Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Grilled on Record-Keeping at Google Play Trial
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Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai immediately faced aggressive questioning when he took the witness stand at an antitrust trial over the Google Play app store. A lawyer for Epic Games Inc. grilled Pichai in San Francisco federal court Tuesday over accusations that he has encouraged internal communications to be hidden from enforcers scrutinizing the company for antitrust violations. Pichai faced a similar attack over his company's records preservation practices when he testified in late October in a landmark Justice Department suit over allegations the company acted like a monopolist with its search business. Responding Tuesday to questions from Epic's attorney Lauren Moskowitz, Pichai said he marked some emails with the attorney-client privilege tag as he was i...