The “dangerous” permissions highlighted by that report include location tracking, access to cameras, contacts and the phone ...

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

Fortnite maker Epic Games filed a lawsuit Monday accusing Google and Samsung, the world’s largest Android maker, of conspiring to block third-party competitors of the Google Play Store.

The video game company claims that, with this change, users will now have to go through an “onerous 21-step process to download an app outside of the Google Play Store or the Samsung Galaxy ...

such as the Samsung Galaxy Store or Google Play Store, to be installed. The feature is turned on by default but can be changed in a phone's settings. The tool prevents the installation of ...

Starting today, September 25, using the Galaxy Store would require you to create a Samsung account. Of course, most of the apps you probably have on your phone are from the Google Play Store.

Following its antitrust win against Google last year, Epic is now going after both Samsung and Google for allegedly conspiring to set up what it says is a similarly anti-competitive scheme on its ...

Epic says the trial included exhaustive and detailed evidence of Google's schemes to pay Samsung to not compete with the Google Play Store and to block other app stores from trying to compete.