{"id":1002887,"date":"2026-04-15T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002887"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:16:20","slug":"google-sued-by-rival-app-store-aptoide-over-alleged-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/google-sued-by-rival-app-store-aptoide-over-alleged-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sued by rival app store Aptoide over alleged monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>Aptoide, a Portuguese company that specializes in mobile games and calls itself the world&#8217;s third-largest Android app store, said it would have exerted \u200csubstantially more \u2060pressure \u2060on Google&#8217;s pricing and policies but for Google&#8217;s &#8220;anticompetitive chokehold&#8221; that shuts out smaller rivals. <\/p>\n<p>Google, a unit of Alphabet, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s third-largest Android app store, said it would have exerted \u200csubstantially more \u2060pressure \u2060on Google&#8217;s pricing and policies but for Google&#8217;s &#8220;anticompetitive chokehold&#8221; that shuts out smaller rivals. Google, a unit of Alphabet, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}