Android users could get money under $135 million Google settlement
Millions of people using Android mobile devices could receive a payout, according to the settlement website.
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Millions of people using Android mobile devices could receive a payout, according to the settlement website.
A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company's internet empire.
California, along with all of the 50 states and three U.S. territories, announced a $700 million settlement with Google on Tuesday morning for what the state's attorney general said was an "anticompetitive monopoly" via their Android app store.
Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, filed a lawsuit against Google three years ago, alleging that Google's Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers.
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All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant's alleged monopolistic control of the distribution of apps for the software that runs most of the world's cellphones.
