{"id":37648,"date":"2022-11-17T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37648"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T13:17:34","slug":"google-paid-blizzard-to-stay-on-play-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/17\/google-paid-blizzard-to-stay-on-play-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Paid Blizzard to Stay on Play Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/11\/google-paid-activision-blizzard-king.html\">Florian Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/11\/google-paid-activision-blizzard-king.html\"><p>The world now knows that in January 2020, Google signed a three-year agreement with Activision Blizzard King (&ldquo;ABK&rdquo;), &ldquo;pursuant to which Google agreed to pay ABK approximately $360 million&rdquo; in order to dissuade Activision Blizzard from creating its own Android app store. Three-hundred and sixty million dollars for <em>not<\/em> competing.<\/p><p>That number would be staggering under <i>any<\/i> circumstances, but it couldn&rsquo;t have been revealed at a more important point in time: as antitrust authorities in the U.S. (Federal Trade Commission (FTC)), EU (Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) of the European Commission), and the UK (Competition &amp; Markets Authority (CMA)) have to make their next decisions on Microsoft&rsquo;s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King. While Sony is the only vocal complainant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosspatents.com\/2022\/10\/google-met-with-eu-commission-officials.html\">Google is also known to have been lobbying behind the scenes<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/19\/microsoft-acquires-activision-blizzard\/\">Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/08\/lawsuit-alleges-google-paid-apple-to-stay-out-of-search\/\">Lawsuit Alleges Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of Search<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/21\/court-documents-about-epic-v-google-and-app-store\/\">Court Documents About Epic v. Google and App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/06\/google-considered-buying-epic\/\">Google Considered Buying Epic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/12\/states-v-google-play-store\/\">States v. Google Play Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/23\/google-antitrust-lawsuit\/\">Google Antitrust Lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/17\/epic-sues-over-google-play-store-too\/\">Epic Sues Over Google Play Store, Too<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florian Mueller: The world now knows that in January 2020, Google signed a three-year agreement with Activision Blizzard King (&ldquo;ABK&rdquo;), &ldquo;pursuant to which Google agreed to pay ABK approximately $360 million&rdquo; in order to dissuade Activision Blizzard from creating its own Android app store. Three-hundred and sixty million dollars for not competing.That number would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-18T02:30:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"58575a27-e47e-49fa-b640-71dd9f93cd49","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-18T13:17:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWFdaJ-R-Sfq2QHHdn5PNSQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2162,248,249,2085,101,1969,51,784,41,209],"class_list":["post-37648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-activision-blizzard","tag-android","tag-androidapp","tag-antitrust","tag-business","tag-epic","tag-google","tag-google-play-store","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37651,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37648\/revisions\/37651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}