Factbox-Google’s antitrust woes mount in US cases over search, apps, ads – Yahoo Canada Finance
By Mike Scarcella
(Reuters) – In the span of two days this week, Alphabet’s Google was hit with a court order to open up its app store Play to rivals and learned that the U.S. Justice Department may soon ask a judge to split up the company to limit its hold over online searches.
Here is a look at the U.S. antitrust cases that have Google playing defense and that could help shape the company’s future.
ANDROID APPS
U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco on Monday ordered Google to overhaul parts of its Android app business, spelling big changes for consumers, developers and mobile device makers. For three years beginning in November, Google under the order must allow Android users to download rival app platforms and use competing in-app payment methods, and it cannot pay device makers to preinstall its app store Play.
The order came in a lawsuit that “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games filed in 2020 accusing Google of monopolizing Android app distribution and payments….
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