Apple wants the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to mandate that Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the Fortnite game peddler. gamesfray via X: ‎ #Apple wants #EpicGames to reimburse $73 MILLION AND COUNTING (the dispute isn’t over yet) in litigation expenses. Apple says it’s spent $82,971,401 defending against that case, adjusts it to $81,560,362, then deducts 10% as Epic prevailed on 1 of 10 counts $73,404,326. Apple bases this indemnification claim on Epic’s breach of the developer agreement (DPLA) when Fortnite suddenly offered an in-app payment alternative. Early into the litigation, Epic accepted that if it loses on its antitrust claims…

Alphabet’s agreement to pay $700 million to consumers and states and open the Google Play Store to competition will leave intact the store’s service fees, or commissions, that the company charges mobile app developers. Malathi Nayak for Bloomberg News: ‎ The settlement announced in a court filing and lauded by elected attorneys general who helped negotiate it will make it easier for developers to offer apps to consumers outside Google Play and use their own payment systems. But there’s a catch: the developers will still have to pay Google a service fee of as much as 26%. Sharp differences of opinion emerged Tuesday as to how much the accord will reshape Google Play’s business model and benefit consumers. While some…

Alphabet’s agreement to pay $700 million to consumers and states and open the Google Play Store to competition will leave intact the store’s service fees, or commissions, that the company charges mobile app developers. Malathi Nayak for Bloomberg News: ‎ The settlement announced in a court filing and lauded by elected attorneys general who helped negotiate it will make it easier for developers to offer apps to consumers outside Google Play and use their own payment systems. But there’s a catch: the developers will still have to pay Google a service fee of as much as 26%. Sharp differences of opinion emerged Tuesday as to how much the accord will reshape Google Play’s business model and benefit consumers. While some…

DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from search advertising made through the Safari browser, the main economics expert for the Alphabet subsidiary testified in court Monday. Leah Nylen for Bloomberg News: ‎ Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor, disclosed the number during his testimony in Google’s defense at the Justice Department’s antitrust trial in Washington. John Schmidtlein, Google’s main litigator, visibly cringed when Murphy said the number, which was supposed to remain confidential. MacDailyNews Take: Tough shite and cringe some more, thieving bastards. (Excellent job, Kevin!) The companies have had a partnership since 2002 that makes Google the default search engine in Apple’s Safari. Today…

Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice of paying Apple and other tech companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices, saying the intent was to make the user experience “seamless and easy.” DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple Paul Wiseman for Associated Press: ‎ The Department of Justice contends that Google — a company whose very name is synonymous with scouring the internet — pays off tech companies to lock out rival search engines to smother competition and innovation. The payments came to more than $26 billion in 2021, according to court documents the government entered into the record…

The core of the U.S. Department of Justice’s argument that Google is an illegal monopoly is a process that involves four taps and a swipe on an iPhone. DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple Austin Carr for Bloomberg News: ‎ That’s what it takes to switch search engines. To explain it step by step, prosecutors called to the witness stand on Sept. 26 one of Apple Inc.’s most powerful executives, Eddy Cue. Presented with screenshots of an iPhone displayed on a flat screen, Cue sounded like a technician at the Genius Bar. “The Settings app, by default when you buy a new phone, is on the main screen,” he said. “When you tap on that…