Technology,
Civil Litigation,
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
Jul. 9, 2021
Google tried to pay strongest competitor to bow out, AGs’ suit says
The attorneys general said new claims were uncovered through internal company documents that showed Google attempted to buy off Samsung to scale back competition through its app store.
Google offered to bribe Samsung to keep it from developing a competing app store, 36 states and the District of Columbia alleged in a previously unreported claim in this week's antitrust lawsuit against the Alphabet-owned company.
"Google intended to pay its most threatening competitor to stop competing," the complaint filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco said.
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