They also considered lowering the fees they charged Epic. In July 2018, senior Google executives including Alphabet’s chief financial officer considered offering Epic a partnership worth as much as $208 million over three years, according to Epic. The fight with Google is just heating up. A trial in the Epic-Apple case took place in May, and the companies are awaiting a ruling from the judge. over fees the companies charge developers in their mobile-app stores. “Android provides more choices in mobile devices for developers and consumers.”Įpic is battling Google and Apple Inc. “As we have stated previously, Epic’s lawsuit is baseless and mischaracterizes our business conversations,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. The alleged takeover plan first came to light this month when a partially redacted version of the complaint was filed with the court.
“A senior Google executive proposed that Google ‘consider approaching Tencent,’ a company that owns a minority stake in Epic, ‘to either (a) buy Epic shares from Tencent to get more control over Epic,’ or ‘(b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic,’” lawyers for the game maker said in the complaint. Epic alleges the Tencent plan was hatched in a 2018 meeting of Google executives, according to an unredacted version of Epic’s lawsuit against Google that was made public Thursday on orders from a judge.
unit characterizes Google as perceiving the closely held game maker to be a threat to its app store.
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says Google went as far as to explore buying Tencent Holdings’ stake in the game maker to stop it from launching its Fortnite game app on Android by bypassing the Google Play store.Įpic’s year-old lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc.
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