Google asks court to halt app store overhaul as it mounts new appeal

Alphabet’s Google on Friday asked a US appeals court to keep on hold an order that required sweeping reforms to the technology giant’s app store Play, after losing a key ruling this week in a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games.

Google in a new filing to the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it planned to further challenge the lower court’s October injunction, which a panel of appeals judges upheld on Thursday in a unanimous decision.

The injunction, which was paused while the 9th Circuit considered the…