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04-18-2017, 09:52 AM
Russia's biggest search engine beats Google in antitrust case
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Google has settled its long-running court battle with the Russian search engine Yandex.
The Moscow-based company had accused the search giant's parent, Alphabet, of undermining competition by forcing phone makers to preinstall a set bundle of Google apps on Android.
SEE ALSO: So much for Equal Pay Day: Google accused of 'very significant' pay discrimination (http://mashable.com/2017/04/07/google-gender-discrimination-charges/)
Per the terms of the settlement, Google must ditch those restrictions in the country. Russian antitrust regulators also fined the company $7.8 million.
While Google never outright required manufacturers to pre-load its apps, its previous rules made it so that companies producing Android-powered phones had to either install all of Google's core apps — Gmail, a browser with Google default search, and, most importantly, the Google Play app store — or **ne at all.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/17/google-antitrust-case-russia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Google has settled its long-running court battle with the Russian search engine Yandex.
The Moscow-based company had accused the search giant's parent, Alphabet, of undermining competition by forcing phone makers to preinstall a set bundle of Google apps on Android.
SEE ALSO: So much for Equal Pay Day: Google accused of 'very significant' pay discrimination (http://mashable.com/2017/04/07/google-gender-discrimination-charges/)
Per the terms of the settlement, Google must ditch those restrictions in the country. Russian antitrust regulators also fined the company $7.8 million.
While Google never outright required manufacturers to pre-load its apps, its previous rules made it so that companies producing Android-powered phones had to either install all of Google's core apps — Gmail, a browser with Google default search, and, most importantly, the Google Play app store — or **ne at all.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/17/google-antitrust-case-russia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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