Alphabet Loses Antitrust Fight With Epic Games Over Google Play
- Jury returns verdict for Epic Games in under four hours
- Epic lost similar challenge to Apple’s app store two years ago
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Google lost an antitrust court fight to Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. that threatens to upend the mobile app economy and could end up costing the technology giant billions of dollars in revenue.
Google Play willfully wields monopoly power through the Alphabet Inc. unit’s anticompetitive conduct, a federal court jury found Monday after deliberating less than four hours following a nearly monthlong trial in San Francisco.