Epic Games and Match Group are seeking to broaden their cases against Google to include more charges
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The two companies accused Google of paying off developers who had the means and expertise to launch alternative Android app stores in a motion filed on Friday with the District Court of California
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Epic and Match, in particular, refer to accords such as Project Hug
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According to a lawsuit filed by Epic last year, the project, eventually dubbed the "Apps and Games Velocity Program," saw Google pay millions of dollars to keep some of Android's most successful developers on the Play Store
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"Some of these arrangements were designed to, and did, prevent developers from opening rival app stores," the motion claims
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adding that Google violated the Sherman Act, the principal US antitrust legislation, "per se."
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Per se breaches of the Sherman Act do not need a plaintiff to demonstrate how a certain activity negatively influenced the market
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