Epic alleges Google paid $360 million to keep Activision from launching its own app store
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6605S)
We could live in a world with more app stores. | Photo by Stefan Etienne / The Verge Activision Blizzard and Riot Games at one point told Google they might launch their own mobile app stores, according to new documents filed in Epic's antitrust lawsuit against the search giant. The details came to light as part of allegations about major deals signed with the two companies. Google allegedly agreed to pay Activision about $360 million over three years and Riot about $30 million for a one-year deal.
In one document, Google exec Karen Aviram Beatty is reporting back from a conversation with Activision Blizzard's now-CFO Armin Zerza one month before the two companies signed the huge deal. If this deal falls through, [Zerza] claims that they will launch their own mobile distribution platform (partnering with another major...