Google Play App Store Faces Revenue Hit as Antitrust Woes Mount
- Injunction on app store rules follows antitrust jury verdict
- Judge says company can deploy ‘reasonable’ security measures
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Alphabet Inc. must lift restrictions that prevent developers from setting up rival marketplaces and billing systems that compete with its Google Play Store, a judge ruled, upending the search giant’s dominance in the lucrative Android app market and probably denting its revenue.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday handed a big victory to Epic Games Inc. in its long-running challenge to the technology giant’s app store, another antitrust blow to Google following its recent major defeat in one US Justice Department case and while it’s still fighting another.