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Google allegedly paid game developers to block Play Store competition

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Reuters reported on Thursday that to prevent big-name game developers from competing with the Play Store Store by opening their own app storefronts, Google paid 24 app developers huge sums of money. For example, mentioned in a court filing cited by the report was an agreement made by Google to pay game developer Activision Blizzard the cool sum of $360 million over three years. Google allegedly agreed to pay Activision $360 million over three years to not compete with the Play Store The deal between Google and Activision was made after the latter allegedly told Google that it was starting…

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