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Activision, Riot signed partnership deals with Google, dropped app store ideas, US jury told

By Xu Yuan and Jenn Brice
  • 30 Nov 2023 00:44
  • 30 Nov 2023 01:51
Google entered into commercial partnerships worth hundreds of millions of dollars with top gaming developers Activision Blizzard King and Riot Games, which abandoned ideas to launch independent app stores, a federal jury in Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Google heard today.
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Xu Yuan

Senior Correspondent


Xu Yuan has worked for MLex for seven years, all of them based in Hong Kong. She has reported on a wide range of regulatory topics, including antitrust, cybersecurity and data security, in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She has broken numerous stories on policymaking and enforcement involving international companies doing business in the region and done substantial court reporting in Hong Kong. She is currently specializing in covering regulatory issues related to future mobility, including connected vehicles. She previously worked for US TV network NBC in Beijing. She received her undergraduate degree in English Literature and Linguistics from Peking University and a master’s degree from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong.

Jenn Brice

Reporter


Jenn is a data privacy and security reporter based in San Francisco. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia. Before joining MLex, she edited UVA’s independent student newspaper and interned at Morning Brew, where she contributed to emerging tech and marketing newsletters.

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