Google sued by rival app store Aptoide over alleged monopoly

A new antitrust lawsuit on Tuesday accuses Google of shutting out rival Android app stores by monopolizing app distribution and billing, violating U.S. antitrust law.

Aptoide, a Portuguese company that specializes in mobile games and calls itself the world’s third-largest Android app store, said it would have exerted ‌substantially more ⁠pressure ⁠on Google’s pricing and policies but for Google’s “anticompetitive chokehold” that shuts out smaller rivals.

Google, a unit of Alphabet, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.