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A Google sign hangs over an entrance to the company's new building, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)

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Google to pay $700 million to US states, consumers in app store settlement
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Mon,12/18/23-11:32PM , 92 Reads
Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes.
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Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, takes part in a discussion at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. A federal court jury is expected to begin its deliberations Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in an antitrust trial focused on whether Google's efforts to thwart competition against its app store for Android smartphones has also been illegally gouging consumers and stifling innovation.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

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Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google over barriers to its Android app store
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Mon,12/11/23-2:14AM , 58 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court jury has decided that Google’s Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire.
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Google logos are shown when searched on Google in New York, Sept. 11, 2023. Google on Monday, Nov. 6, will try to protect a lucrative piece of its internet empire at the same time it’s still entangled in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. The latest threat will unfold in a San Francisco federal court, where a 10-person jury will decide whether Google's digital payment processing system in the Play Store that distributes apps for phones running on its Android software has been illegally driving up prices for consumers and developers. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Fortnite maker accuses Google of bullying and bribing to block competition to its Android app store
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Sun,11/05/23-6:39PM , 109 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Monday confronted the second major U.S. antitrust trial in two months to cast the internet powerhouse as a brazen bully that uses its immense wealth and people's dependence on one of its main products to stifle competition at consumers' expense.
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Associated Press reporter Michael Liedtke sits in the back of a Cruise driverless taxi that picked him up in San Francisco's Mission District, Feb. 15, 2023. California's Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday, Oct. 24, immediately suspended operation of Cruise's driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, citing public safety after one of its cars ran over a person fatally struck by a vehicle driven by a human. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

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California regulators suspend recently approved San Francisco robotaxi service for safety reasons
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Tue,10/24/23-1:43PM , 79 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators have revoked the license of a robotaxi service owned by General Motors after determining its driverless cars that recently began transporting passengers throughout San Francisco are a dangerous menace.
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