Dozens of U.S. states sue Google over Play Store's 'extravagant commission'

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WASHINGTON/OAKLAND, Calif., July 7 (Reuters) - Thirty-seven U.S. state and district attorneys general sued Alphabet Inc's(GOOGL.O)Google on Wednesday, alleging that the search and advertising giant ...

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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from Amazon.com Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.\nThe new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including Match Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.\n\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.\nApple Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.\nBoth companies have drawn legal scrutiny.\nVideo game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and Apple separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.\nThe states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.\nGoogle already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">Amazon.com</a> Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.</p>\n<p>The new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MTCH\">Match</a> Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.</p>\n<p>\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from Amazon.com Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.\nThe new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including Match Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.\n\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.\nApple Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.\nBoth companies have drawn legal scrutiny.\nVideo game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and Apple separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.\nThe states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.\nGoogle already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">Amazon.com</a> Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.</p>\n<p>The new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MTCH\">Match</a> Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.</p>\n<p>\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.</p>\n<p>Both companies have drawn legal scrutiny.</p>\n<p>Video game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.</p>\n<p>The states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NWY\">New York</a>, North <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CARO\">Carolina</a> and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.</p>\n<p>Google already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from Amazon.com Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.\nThe new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including Match Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.\n\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.\nApple Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.\nBoth companies have drawn legal scrutiny.\nVideo game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and Apple separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.\nThe states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.\nGoogle already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">Amazon.com</a> Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.</p>\n<p>The new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MTCH\">Match</a> Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.</p>\n<p>\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.</p>\n<p>Both companies have drawn legal scrutiny.</p>\n<p>Video game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a> separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.</p>\n<p>The states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/NWY\">New York</a>, North <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/CARO\">Carolina</a> and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.</p>\n<p>Google already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. One is led by Texas and focused on advertising while the other targets Google's alleged efforts to extend its dominance in search to newer markets, like voice assistants.</p>","source":"lsy1601381805984","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Dozens of U.S. states sue Google over Play Store's 'extravagant commission'</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Google's Play Store is far more widely used than similar products from Amazon.com Inc(AMZN.O), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd(005930.KS), Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and others.\nThe new lawsuit drew praise from Meghan DiMuzio, executive director for the Coalition for App Fairness, which represents companies including Match Group Inc(MTCH.O)and Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.N)that oppose some of the Play Store rules.\n\"Anti-competitive policies stifle innovation, inhibit consumer freedom, inflate costs, and limit transparent communication between developers and their customers,\" DiMuzio said.\nApple Inc's(AAPL.O)App Store for iPhones and iPads imposes similar restrictions to Play Store. Google does enable consumers to avoid the Play Store, but critics say it is not practical to do so.\nBoth companies have drawn legal scrutiny.\nVideo game maker Epic Games Inc sued Google and Apple separately in federal court in California last year over app store policies. Proposed classes of developers and consumers have joined the cases. A judge's decision in the Apple fight is expected in the coming weeks, and a hearing on Google's effort to dismiss the case against it is scheduled for July 22.\nThe states' lawsuit is headed by a group including attorneys general of Utah, New York, North Carolina and Tennessee, and joined by others including California and the District of Columbia.\nGoogle already faces a federal antitrust lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year and related lawsuits from two separate groups of attorneys general. One is led by Texas and focused on advertising while the other targets Google's alleged efforts to extend its dominance in search to newer markets, like voice assistants.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":199,"commentSize":21,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.29.1","shortVersion":"4.29.1","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1133690658"}