The changes are among several remedies ordered by a judge following an antitrust case in the United States involving the tech giant and Epic Games.

This ruling could reshape the mobile app landscape in the coming years

A U.S. judge ordered Alphabet’s Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options.

It is among several remedies ordered in a case brought against the firm by Fortnite-maker Epic Games.

Judge Donato orders Google to open its Play Store and android itself to third-party stores as part of his final ruling in Epic v Google.

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A federal judge in the United States has ordered tech giant Google to open its Android smartphones to rival app stores. The order comes after an antitrust case in which a jury decided Google had illegal…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company's internet empire. The injunction issued by U.S. District Judge James Donato will require Google to make several changes that the Mountain View, California, company had been resisting. Those include a provision that will require its Play Store for Android apps to distribute rival third-party app stores so consumers can download them to their phones, if they so desire.The judge’s order will also make the millions of Android apps in the Play Store library accessible to rivals, allowing them to offer up a competitive selection.Donato is giving Google until November to make the revisions dictated in his order. The company had insisted it would take 12 to 16 months to design the safeguards needed to reduce the chances of potentially malicious software making its way into rival Android app stores…

The injunction will require Google to make several changes that the California company had been resisting.

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Alphabet's Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options to download apps and to pay for transactions within them.

A US judge on Monday ordered Google to open its Android smartphone operating system to rival app stores, in a fresh legal setback for the tech giant. Phones running on the Android operating system have about a 70 percent share of the world's smartphone market.

A US judge on Monday ordered Google to open its Android smartphone operating system to rival app stores, in a fresh legal setback for the tech giant. Phones running on the Android operating system have about a 70 percent share of the world's smartphone market.

:A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Alphabet's Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options to download apps and to pay for transactions within them, following a jury verdict last year for “Fortnite” maker Epic Games.The injunction by U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Fr

A federal judge has ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition.