{"id":951899,"date":"2025-08-01T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951899"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:52:09","slug":"google-dealt-another-legal-blow-by-epic-games-heres-what-it-could-mean-for-android-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/google-dealt-another-legal-blow-by-epic-games-heres-what-it-could-mean-for-android-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google dealt another legal blow by Epic Games: Here&#8217;s what it could mean for Android users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has lost its appeal at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals against a jury verdict and a federal court order from last year that required the company to revamp its Play Store policies. The tech giant has been in a long-running legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games, but the new ruling now clears the way for Epic to offer its own app store directly within the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Margaret McKeown, siding with the lower court\u2019s ruling, wrote: \u201cIt is well established that antitrust remedies can and often must proscribe otherwise lawful conduct to unwind and further prevent violators\u2019 anticompetitive activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has lost its appeal at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals against a jury verdict and a federal court order from last year that required the company to revamp its Play Store policies. The tech giant has been in a long-running legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games, but the new ruling now clears the way for Epic to offer its own app store directly within the Google Play Store. Judge Margaret McKeown, siding with the lower court\u2019s ruling, wrote: \u201cIt is well established that antitrust remedies can and often must proscribe otherwise lawful conduct to unwind and further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951899","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}