{"id":12663,"date":"2023-12-18T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/lets-hope-epics-antitrust-win-over-google-is-the-first-of-many-tech-giant-losses-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T09:37:46","slug":"lets-hope-epics-antitrust-win-over-google-is-the-first-of-many-tech-giant-losses-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/lets-hope-epics-antitrust-win-over-google-is-the-first-of-many-tech-giant-losses-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s hope Epic’s antitrust win over Google is the first of many tech giant losses | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The jury in the video game developer\u2019s antitrust case over Google\u2019s app store monopoly were under no illusions<\/p>\n

The big news last week was that a jury in San Francisco had found Google guilty<\/a> on all counts of antitrust violations stemming from its dispute with Epic Games<\/a>, maker of the bestselling Fortnite<\/em>, which had lodged a number of complaints related to how Google runs its Play store, an Android app market with a revenue of about $48bn (\u00a338bn) a year.<\/p>\n

Why is this interesting? Isn\u2019t it just another case of two tech companies squabbling in a US court? Well, in the first place, something very rare happened \u2013 a tech giant actually lost<\/em> a big case in a US court. Second, the case was decided by a jury, not (as often happens in such cases) by a judge. Third, it showed that venerable antitrust (ie anti-monopoly) laws such as the Sherman Act<\/a> still work.<\/p>\n

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\nThe jury in the video game developer\u2019s antitrust case over Google\u2019s app store monopoly were under no illusions
\nThe big news last week was that a jury in San Francisco had found Google guilty on all counts of antitrust violations stemming from its dispute with Epic Games, maker of the bestselling Fortnite, which had lodged a number of complaints related to how Google runs its Play store, an Android app market with a revenue of about $48bn (\u00a338bn) a year.
\nWhy is this interesting? Isn\u2019t it just another case of two tech companies squabbling in a US court? Well, in the first place, something very rare happened \u2013 a tech giant actually lost a big case in a US court. Second, the case was decided by a jury, not (as often happens in such cases) by a judge. Third, it showed that venerable antitrust (ie anti-monopoly) laws such as the Sherman Act still work. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The jury in the video game developer\u2019s antitrust case over Google\u2019s app store monopoly were under no illusions The big news last week was that a jury in San Francisco had found Google guilty on all counts of antitrust violations stemming from its dispute with Epic Games, maker of the bestselling Fortnite, which had lodged …<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope Epic’s antitrust win over Google is the first of many tech giant losses | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}