In the latest bit of regulatory woe for Big Tech in Europe, Google is trying to settle a German antitrust investigation into its news licensing product by offering not to expand the display of News Showcase “story panels” into general search results. The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) announced today that the company has proposed […]
SALT LAKE CITY Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes announced Wednesday his office will co-lead a new lawsuit targeting Google and its alleged anticompetitive practices in how the company runs its Play Store, the No. 1 app distributor for phones that operate on another Google product, the Android operating system.
The action marks the third multi-state suit that includes Utah among plaintiffs attempting to take U.S. Big Tech companies to task for alleged abuses of market dominance. The other filings are against Facebook and another Google suit that is focused on the company s search functions. While a federal judge dismissed the complaint against Facebook last month, the case is still alive and could resume if an amended complaint is filed. Reyes wasn t able to cite the costs, so far, of the various lawsuits but said it was likely in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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