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The order restricts Google from making payments to device makers to preinstall its app store and from sharing money generated from the Play store with other app distributors. Alphabet shares were down 2.2% following the ruling. Donato said Epic and Google must explore a three-person technical committee to implement and monitor the injunction. Epic and Google each get a pick, and those two groups will select the third person. Google has said it plans to appeal the verdict that led to the injunction, and it could require the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals to pause Donato’s order pending appeal. In a secret antitrust case in Washington, US district judge Amit Mehta on 5 August ruled for the US justice department and said Google had illegally monopolized web search, spending billions to become the internet’s default search engine. Google also began a trial in September in Virginia federal court in a justice department lawsuit over its dominance in the market for using technology.