Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial Thursday.

Google quietly paid game developers hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives to keep their games on the Play Store, a newly unredacted complaint from Epic Games in its antitrust suit against ...

Epic alleged that Google has a secret initiative to keep major developers on its Play Store. It said Google planned to spend "hundreds of millions" of dollars to stop developers from leaving. The ...