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Given Mark Tritton’s extensive retail resume — consisting of opening fancy flagship stores for luxury retailer Nordstrom to bringing cheap chic back to Target’s home department — it’s not a shock the Bed Bath & Beyond CEO knew things had to seriously change inside the company’s most recognizable location of all positioned on 620 Sixth Avenue in New York City.  When Tritton walked into the ginormous 92,000-square-foot store in December 2019 soon after he took over as CEO, he knew that… Source link

As we approach the release of Google and Samsung’s joint smartwatch operating system later this year, Google today outlined some new Play Store improvements that will make it easier for customers to find and download apps to their Wear OS devices. The company is making it faster to search for smartwatch apps on your Android phone and instantly install them. There are new filters that are activated when you include “watch” or “watch face” in your Play Store search query. Based… Source link

Google used anticompetitive practices in an attempt to “preemptively quash” Samsung’s Galaxy Store, and prevent it from becoming a viable competitor to its own Play Store. That’s according to an antitrust lawsuit filed by a coalition of three dozen state attorney general, which accuses Google of illegally attempting to control app distribution on Android. The suit also alleges Google paid off app developers to stop them circumventing its store. The allegations challenge one of… Source link

A coalition of more than 30 states on Wednesday sued Google for allegedly abusing its power it has over developers through its Google Play store on Google devices, like Androids. SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett hide caption toggle caption … Source link

WASHINGTON — A group of 36 states and the District of Columbia sued Google on Wednesday over claims that its mobile app store abuses its market power and forces aggressive terms on software developers, expanding the legal challenges facing the internet search giant. The suit is the fourth state or federal antitrust lawsuit filed against Google since October, but the first to scrutinize the company’s lucrative app store. Utah, North Carolina, New York and Tennessee led the suit, which was… Source link

The suit, which could be filed as early as Wednesday, alleges that Google abused its dominance in the mobile ecosystem to favor its own Google Play Store, reducing competition in the process, the person said. The suit also takes aim at the fees that Google charges developers for in-app purchases, according to the source. Bloomberg was first to report the lawsuit. It is unclear which states are involved in the suit. Court records reviewed by CNN Business on Wednesday showed that a case against… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) app store, Google Play, became the latest target of Big Tech antitrust regulators Wednesday in a federal lawsuit filed by dozens of attorneys general led by the state of Utah. The case, brought in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, is one of dozens of lawsuits that Google’s parent company Alphabet is facing in a wave of actions around the globe challenging tiers of its dominant markets.  In… Source link

On Wednesday, a coalition of state attorneys general launched a new antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of abusing its control of the Android app store, as reported by Bloomberg. The lawsuit, filed by 36 states and Washington, DC, in California federal court, challenges Google’s policy forcing Google Play app developers to pay a 30 percent commission fee on sales made through the app. Google recently expanded the fees to cover more digital goods purchased on the… Source link

In addition to Wednesday’s suit, Google also faces a suit that the Justice Department and 14 states filed in October, focused on Google’s efforts to dominate the mobile search market; one from 38 states and territories filed in December, also focused on search; and a third suit by 15 states and territories related to Google’s power over the advertising technology. The new case: Wednesday’s suit is the latest challenge to the search giant’s plan to force all app developers who use its… Source link

The new Android App Bundles will have a .aab file extension. Image: Google Google will start imposing a change that would clamp down on the Android apps distributed through the Play Store. This week, the company announced that beginning in August, developers will have to publish apps as a proprietary Android App Bundle rather than the standard APK publishing format. The requirement only applies to new apps, however. Existing apps are currently exempt, as well as private apps published to… Source link