Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -2.22% GOOG, -2.56% and Epic Games Inc. have agreed to start their antitrust lawsuit in late January 2023, according to a filing in federal court in Northern California last week. Epic, the maker of the popular Fortnite game, is suing Google over alleged antitrust violations after Fortnite was dropped from the both the Google Play Store and Apple Inc.’s AAPL, -1.28% App Store in August 2020. Epic and Apple went to court last year, a split decision of sorts that has been appealed by both companies.

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