Google to pay $1 billion over 3 years for news content

By Kelvin Chan | The Associated Press
Google will pay publishers $1 billion over the next three years for their content, the company’s latest effort to diffuse tensions over its dominance of the news industry.
The company said Thursday that it has signed agreements for its news partnership program with nearly 200 publications in Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the U.K. and Australia.
“This financial commitment – our biggest to date – will pay publishers to create and