{"id":1031627,"date":"2026-08-28T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031627"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:52:57","slug":"google-agrees-to-settle-uk-app-developers-lawsuit-for-353-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/28\/google-agrees-to-settle-uk-app-developers-lawsuit-for-353-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Google agrees to settle UK app developers&#8217; lawsuit for $353 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to settle a mass London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers for \u00a3260 million ($353.21 million), according to a deal published on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The claim, which was previously valued at just over \u00a31 billion, sought compensation on behalf of developers who sold apps \u200con Google&#8217;s \u2060Play \u2060Store in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for academic Barry Rodger, who led the case, alleged Google had abused its dominant position to prevent developers from distributing apps by alternative means and by charging an unfair commission, usually 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to settle a mass London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers for \u00a3260 million ($353.21 million), according to a deal published on Thursday. The claim, which was previously valued at just over \u00a31 billion, sought compensation on behalf of developers who sold apps \u200con Google&#8217;s \u2060Play \u2060Store in the United Kingdom. Lawyers for academic Barry Rodger, who led the case, alleged Google had abused its dominant position to prevent developers from distributing apps by alternative means and by charging an unfair commission, usually 30%.<\/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-1031627","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\/1031627","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=1031627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031652,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031627\/revisions\/1031652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}