{"id":1041323,"date":"2026-10-07T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041323"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:30:50","slug":"google-fights-1-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-app-store-fees-in-latest-big-tech-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/google-fights-1-billion-uk-lawsuit-over-app-store-fees-in-latest-big-tech-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Google fights \u00a31 billion UK lawsuit over app store fees in latest Big Tech case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google was accused of abusing its dominance to levy excessive commissions on app developers, as a mass consumer lawsuit worth over \u00a31 billion ($1.33 billion) began in London on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The case &#8211; brought on behalf of around 20 million consumers who bought apps through Google&#8217;s Play Store, or paid for in-app purchases and subscriptions between 2015 and this July &#8211; is the latest brought in Britain against Big Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google was accused of abusing its dominance to levy excessive commissions on app developers, as a mass consumer lawsuit worth over \u00a31 billion ($1.33 billion) began in London on Tuesday. The case &#8211; brought on behalf of around 20 million consumers who bought apps through Google&#8217;s Play Store, or paid for in-app purchases and subscriptions between 2015 and this July &#8211; is the latest brought in Britain against Big Tech.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041323","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=1041323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041344,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041323\/revisions\/1041344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}