Google will pay $700 million to US authorities in the case of 30 percent commissions – Kommersant

Google has disclosed details of an agreement with US state authorities as part of a lawsuit over a 30 percent commission. From messages The company is expected to pay US authorities $700 million for violating antitrust laws. In addition, application developers will now be allowed to collect payments from users, bypassing Google’s payment system, and third-party application stores will be able to be installed on Android mobile devices.

All these measures are part of an agreement that was concluded between Google and the authorities of all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. We’re talking about a lawsuit filed by state authorities in 2021. The District Court for the Northern District of California concluded that the corporation’s requirements for application developers run counter to the country’s antitrust laws. The parties entered into a deal back in September of this year, but its details were not disclosed, since at the same time the same court was considering the case of Google against Epic Games on the same issue. At the last district court also admitted Google is a monopolist that abuses its position in the mobile application market. Google then said that they intended to appeal this court decision.

Read more about the conflict in the Kommersant article. “A battle royal awaits us”.

Kirill Sarkhanyants