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...It dismissed a proposal by the two companies to divest several hundred stores as “inadequate”....
...Frasers Group, which owns UK department store chain House of Fraser and has smaller stakes in many retail businesses, upped its stake in Hornby to 8.9 per cent in February....
...The company has now committed to rolling that option out across the Play store. Google will also allow developers to steer consumers outside its store to other payment methods....
...Google Play faces some app store competition on Android, but Apple stands alone with iOS. So be it, the Apple case judge ruled: its app store is very successful but “success is not illegal”....
...The brand, which delisted from the London stock market in 2022 after Authentic acquired it in a £211mn deal, will continue to trade online and in stores....
...“The trial made clear that we compete fiercely with Apple and its App Store, as well as app stores on Android devices and gaming consoles,” White added....
...Lego’s operating profit margin fell by 1.7 per cent to 26 per cent, as it spent more on stores, its supply chain and digital operations....
...The adoption of the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which came into force this week, amounts to a giant experiment in government micromanagement of everything from Apple’s App Store to the Google search engine...
...Given the operating costs that Epic sees on its own store, “we know that these stores can operate on vastly lower fees than Google is charging”, he said....
...The merged entity would operate more than 5,000 stores and approximately 4,000 retail pharmacies while employing nearly 700,000 staff across 48 states, the FTC said....
...For Lego, its stores are a literal shop window for its brand, and offer it far more control over that than it had at, say, Toys R Us....
...At the end of last year it had 594 Home Bargains stores, with the bulk of those shops in the North and Midlands....
...The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, announced official probes on Monday into whether Apple and Google owner Alphabet were unduly favouring their own app stores, as well as Facebook owner Meta...
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...Epic has alleged Google’s operating profit on the Play Store exceeded $12bn in 2021, at a margin of more than 70 per cent....
...Apple and Google-owner Alphabet were accused of favouring their own app stores while Facebook-owner Meta is being probed over its use of personal data for advertising....
...The search giant said its “largest, most capable and most general” AI system would be available as a free app through Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS app stores....
...RetailNext, another data company, reported a 2 per cent increase in foot traffic at stores on Black Friday....
...“For a toy store, the holiday season — it’s the most exciting time of the year for us.”...
...“It was like a toy that I would break open to see the construction. It was fascinating to see the clothes from the inside.”...
...The presence of Apple’s app store negates arguments of a monopoly. Plus Google Android phones allow users to upload apps from other app stores....
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