Alphabet must lift restrictions that prevent developers from setting up rival marketplaces that compete with its Google Play Store, a judge has ruled, upending the search giant’s dominance in the lucrative Android app market.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday handed a big victory to Epic Games in its long-running antitrust challenge to the technology giant’s app store, which brought in $14.66 billion in sales in 2020. The ruling comes after the maker of the popular video game Fortnite convinced a jury that Google abused its power in the Android app market with its Google Play store policies.
Alphabet shares fell as much as 2.5% to $162.96 in New York. They had been up 20% this year through the end of last week.
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