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...Brussels is probing Apple’s move to kick Fortnite-maker Epic Games from its App Store, escalating a confrontation between the bloc’s regulators and the iPhone-maker as a landmark law targeting Big Tech takes...
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...On Monday, a California jury sided with the video game maker Epic Games in its dispute with Google....
...Epic says it is fighting for all Android developers, but it also has a clear interest of its own: boosting traffic for its own Epic Games Store, which carries a 12 per cent fee for developers selling on...
...The man who keeps telling them is Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, the developer behind the game Fortnite....
...A federal jury on Monday found against Google in a lawsuit brought by Epic, the company behind popular video game Fortnite, which accused the search giant of suppressing competition in the Android app market...
...Epic Games’ legal fight is unlikely to change that. The value of the mobile app market is estimated at more than $100bn....
...Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite game, has argued in its lawsuit that Google has set up a thicket of contractual and technical restrictions around its Android operating system that in effect...
...It points out that Epic itself takes advantage of these arrangements, using Samsung’s Galaxy app store to distribute its games, and allows direct download of Fortnite, its most popular game....
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...Meanwhile in the US, the legal fight with Epic Games won’t go away....
...Epic Games sued the company over its App Store policies in 2020, claiming the company imposes an unfair 30 per cent “tax” on certain transactions — a case that Epic largely lost....
...The legislation, which was supported by a coalition of app developers including Tinder owner Match Group, Spotify and Epic Games, was the first of its kind in the world....
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...Late last year, it lost an antitrust case brought by Epic Games against its Android app store....
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...I thought of this while sitting in the courtroom for the trial between Epic Games and Google late last year....
...It later granted Epic Games access to its App Store, after Brussels said it was probing Apple over its move to ban the game developer’s account....
...Google’s Play Store, which charges a similar fee, is also in the spotlight after it lost a landmark trial against Epic Games in California in December....
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...Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery plan to launch a sports streaming service later this year that will aggregate the games offered by the media groups’ traditional television networks....
...Sweeney also warned that Apple’s vetting of rival stores could prevent the Epic Games Store from featuring on iOS....
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...One thing to start: Disney is making a $1.5bn investment in Epic Games, the group behind Fortnite, in a move that is expected to be the Hollywood company’s largest move into gaming so far....
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