Alphabet, Google’s parent company, agreed to pay $700 million and make changes to its online app store, adhering to the terms of an antitrust settlement released Monday. As part of the deal, the company will make changes to its app store to reduce barriers to competition for developers, including allowing apps to charge users directly. … [Read more…]
Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google will pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of U.S. states that accused the company of stifling competition to its Play Store on Android devices, according to court documents released Monday. … [Read more…]
Atlantico: A California jury ruled in favor of Epic Games, the publisher of Fortnite, which accused Google of abusing a dominant position in the market for the distribution of applications on Android. In particular, the jury found that Google acted anti-competitively by imposing the Google Play Billing payment service and charging a commission on the … [Read more…]
A jury ruled Monday that Google violated antitrust laws to deprive Epic Games and other developers of fees and restrict competition in its Play mobile app store. This could redefine the rules for how thousands of companies make money from Google’s smartphone operating system, Android. After deliberating for just over three hours, the nine-person federal … [Read more…]