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asked a court late Thursday to toss out several allegations made by Epic, Match and U.S. state attorneys general about how the search and advertising giant runs its app store for Android phones...
It has also asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss claims in a 2020 antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department..
"Google looks forward to vindicating itself at trial and defending the innovation that made Android successful," the company said in its filing, noting that it had brought a "targeted motion for partial summary judgment, which will narrow this sprawling antitrust case for trial."..
Among them, it asked the court to toss out allegations that Google prohibited the distribution of other app stores and, thus, broke the law..
It also asked the court to toss out allegations related to Project Hug, where Google paid game developers to keep their games in Google's Play Store rather than releasing them independently..
