News Muncher - searching for google

google

Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store

A panel of judges will be given time to consider Google’s appeal of the 2023 trial focused on antitrust claims lodged by video game maker Epic Games. A federal judge on Friday delayed an order requiring Google to open up its Android app store to more competition until an appeals court decides whether to block the shake-up because of legal …

Google

Federal judge orders Google to open its Android app store to competition

Judge weighs proposed changes to Google’s Android app store to prevent anticompetitive tactics

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is tried to confront the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as federal judge began to address anticompetitive practices in the app market for smartphones powered by its Android software. The San Francisco court hearing before U.S. District Judge James Donato comes five months after a nine-person jury decided …

Epic Games Proposes Google App Store Reforms After Antitrust Win

-“Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games has urged a federal judge in California to force Google to open up its Play Store to greater competition after a jury found the U.S. tech giant had abused its power as a gatekeeper for apps on the Android mobile platform. Epic made its proposal in a court filing on Thursday to U.S. District …

Epic vs. Google: What changes will we see on our phones?

There’s a middleman living in your phone. Epic wants developers to be able to list their apps on the Google Play Store—with lower fees, of course—but it also wants the freedom to offer users its own app store and billing system. Moss says she expects that Donato may opt for the lowest-hanging fruit, perhaps by issuing an injunction against Google’s …

Lawsuit against Google’s Play Store practices get class-action designation

A U.S. judge in California on Monday allowed litigation against Alphabet Inc.'s Google to proceed as a consumer class action of 21 million individuals who accuse the company of violating U.S. anti-competition laws in how it runs its Google Play app store. U.S. District Judge James Donato said in a 27-page order that the plaintiffs had established the legal elements …