{"id":12683,"date":"2023-12-19T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/google-agrees-to-pay-700m-after-antitrust-settlement-with-consumers-and-us-states\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T06:37:36","slug":"google-agrees-to-pay-700m-after-antitrust-settlement-with-consumers-and-us-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/google-agrees-to-pay-700m-after-antitrust-settlement-with-consumers-and-us-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Google agrees to pay $700m after antitrust settlement with consumers and US states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company was accused of overcharging consumers but did not admit wrongdoing<\/p>\n<p>Google has agreed to pay US$700m and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers disclosed in a San Francisco federal court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/google\">Google<\/a> was accused of overcharging consumers through unlawful restrictions on the distribution of apps on Android devices and unnecessary fees for in-app transactions. It did not admit wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/19\/google-agrees-to-pay-700m-after-antitrust-settlement-with-consumers-and-us-states\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0d406750cb19c46c446ec17be8b0b1f163e9e46b\/0_137_4127_2477\/master\/4127.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=605e1390b90f2e25ad5da44777ebc4b4\" title=\"Google agrees to pay $700m after antitrust settlement with consumers and US states\" \/>The company was accused of overcharging consumers but did not admit wrongdoing<br \/>\nGoogle has agreed to pay US$700m and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers disclosed in a San Francisco federal court.<br \/>\nGoogle was accused of overcharging consumers through unlawful restrictions on the distribution of apps on Android devices and unnecessary fees for in-app transactions. It did not admit wrongdoing. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company was accused of overcharging consumers but did not admit wrongdoing Google has agreed to pay US$700m and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers disclosed in a San Francisco federal court. Google was accused of overcharging consumers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/google-agrees-to-pay-700m-after-antitrust-settlement-with-consumers-and-us-states\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google agrees to pay $700m after antitrust settlement with consumers and US states<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12684,"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\/12683"}],"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=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}