Top Apple executives likely to be deposed in U.S. fight with Google

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The Justice Department wants to depose some of Apple’s (AAPL.O) top executives as it prepares for a trial to determine if Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google broke antitrust law in how it runs its search business, a lawyer representing Apple said on Friday.

In its complaint, the Justice Department accused Google of paying billions of dollars each year in exclusionary agreements with Apple, Samsung and others so that they will make Google’s search engine the default on…