Google lost an antitrust case over the market power of its app store on Monday, a blow to the search giant as it faces other legal challenges to its search dominance and ad tech business.

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“It is a big deal that a jury is saying, ‘Yes, Google has a monopoly and it has illegally maintained a monopoly,’” said Lee Hepner, a lawyer for the American Economic Liberties Project, an antimonopoly group. “A jury was readily able to call a spade a spade.”

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