Google has settled its US antitrust case with Epic Games on app store changes to give developers and consumers more choice.

What is unfolding in the US aligns with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which designates Google and Apple as "gatekeepers" and explicitly forbids them from restricting third-party billing, app stores, ...

Alphabet's Google has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games, agreeing to ...

Google must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps — and distribute third-party stores. Google must give rival third-party app stores access to the full ...

Epic is also easing up on Google’s mandate that developers use Play Billing. Under the proposal, Google can require that devs ...

A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to open its Play Store to competitors for three years, a harsh setback for the tech giant stemming from a jury finding in December 2023 that the company had ...

The internet giant was ordered by a federal judge to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct. By Nico Grant Reporting from San Francisco In December, a federal jury in San ...

Google and Epic Games Inc., maker of the popular Fortnite game, reached a settlement in their five-year antitrust fight over ...

Google must open up the Android app store, Google Play, to competition for at least three years, a US judge ruled Monday. The ruling is the latest legal blow to the tech giant, which has already faced ...

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Google is backpedaling on its decision to introduce new identity verification rules for all developers, stating that it will ...

Judge James Donato said that Google built the Play Store into such a fortress that even a behemoth like Amazon couldn't compete. A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to open its Play Store to ...