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Google will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly. The proposed changes filed on Wednesday with a federal court in San Francisco mark the latest twist in a case that began in August 2020 when video game maker Epic Games filed an antitrust case seeking make it easier for alternative payment options to compete against Google's Play Store system, which charges 15 per cent to 30 per cent commissions on a wide variety of in-app transactions. Google's concessions come five months after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the company's attempt to overturn a federal judge's order requiring a far more extensive overhaul of the Play Store following a 2023 trial that culminated in a jury declaring the setup an illegal monopoly. Backed into a legal corner, Google is now prepared to ...

Sponsored apps will no longer be limited to the top slot, with Apple adding more ad placements further down App Store search results across markets starting March 2026

Reportedly, some users on iOS 26.3 beta are seeing sponsored App Store results without the usual blue background, making ads harder to distinguish from regular search listings

Apple has announced the 2025 App Store Award winners, honouring 17 apps and games for excellence in innovation, user experience, design, and cultural impact

Apple has named 45 apps and games as finalists for the 2025 App Store Awards, acknowledging titles that stood out this year in terms of innovation, user experience, design and cultural impact

The Commission is asking the businesses to provide information on their age verification systems, as well as on how they prevent minors from accessing illegal products

Alongside, Nothing introduces Playground, which is a dedicated space for apps designed and created by its community through Essential AI platform

Developed by Chennai-based Zoho Corporation, messaging app Arattai has topped the App Store as daily sign-ups surged from 3,000 to 350,000

Adobe's Project Indigo camera app brings computational photography for SLR-like look to images, pro-grade camera control, and previews of upcoming AI-powered editing tools

Apple sought to pause compliance with a 2021 injunction after a judge ruled it engaged in anticompetitive conduct, but the request was denied as it appeals the ruling

According to the report, over 94 per cent of billings and sales facilitated by the App Store in India accrued solely to developers, without any commission paid to Apple

Epic contends Apple still hasn't complied with her order, more than a year after the company exhausted appeals all the way to the US Supreme Court

Reportedly, some malicious apps on App Store and Play Store have been using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to extract crypto wallet passwords from saved screenshots

The development comes a day after China announced measures targeting US businesses including Google, farm equipment makers and the owner of fashion brand Calvin Klein

Canon's Live Switcher Mobile app for iPhones and iPads lets users broadcast the footage through a livestream platform such as YouTube and Facebook.

Apple said that the new Apple Store app will feature multiple tabs to enhance the shopping experience and product discovery

Apple has named Kino app as iPhone App of the Year, and Adobe Lightroom as Mac App of the Year. Check the full list of the most downloaded apps and games below

The body subsequently launched parallel investigations into both companies for alleged anticompetitive behaviour

A federal judge has indicated he will order major changes in Google's Android app store to punish the company for engineering a system that a jury declared an illegal monopoly that has hurt millions of consumers and app developers. Over the course of a three-hour hearing in San Francisco, US District Judge James Donato on Wednesday made it clear that the forthcoming shake-up he is contemplating will probably include a mandate requiring Google's Play Store for Android phones offer consumers a choice to download alternative app stores Donato has been weighing how to punish the Google since last December when a jury declared the Play Store a monopoly following a four-week trial. The verdict centred on Google's nearly exclusive control over distribution of apps designed for Android phones and the billing systems for the digital commerce occurring within them -- a system that generates billions of dollars in annual revenue for the company. In protesting the judge's potential requirements

Apple has updated app review guidelines, allowing mini apps, mini games, streaming games, chatbots, plug-ins, and game emulators