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India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance, report shows

Editorial Bureau September 18, 2021

NEW DELHI (India) – Google abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India, using its “huge financial muscle” to illegally hurt competitors, the country’s antitrust authority found in a report on its two-year probe seen by Reuters. Alphabet

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Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin

Editorial Bureau September 17, 2021

MOSCOW (Russia) – Alphabet’s Google and Apple have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting app from their stores, his team said on Friday, after Russia accused the U.S. tech firms of meddling in its internal affairs. Russia goes to the polls on Friday to elect a new parliament in a three-day vote that […]

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Google under new EU antitrust probe – MLex reporter

Editorial Bureau September 9, 2021

Alphabet Inc’s Google is facing a renewed EU antitrust investigation into whether it may have forced device manufacturers to use Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android devices, an MLex reporter tweeted on Thursday. The latest investigation comes amid concerns of potential anti-competitive practices in the race for market dominance among

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Australia mulling new laws for Apple, Google, WeChat digital wallets

Editorial Bureau August 30, 2021

SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) – The Australian government is mulling new laws that would tighten the regulation of digital payment services by tech giants such as Apple and Alphabet’s Google. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said he would “carefully consider” that and other recommendations from a government-commissioned report into whether the payments system had

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Russia imposes fine on Google for not removing banned content

Editorial Bureau August 17, 2021

MOSCOW (RUSSIA) -A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc’s Google a total of 10.5 million roubles ($142,877) for violating Russian rules on banned content, the penalty coming amid a wider stand-off between Russia and Big Tech companies. Russia has routinely fined social media giants for failing to remove prohibited content and is seeking to […]

Business

Google says Microsoft balking at turning over documents in antitrust fight

Editorial Bureau July 30, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) – Highlighting that Microsoft has failed to comply with a subpoena, according to a court filing unsealed late Thursday, Alphabet’s Google has asked a judge hearing the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the search and advertising giant to compel Microsoft to turn over documents. Google served a subpoena to Microsoft [MSFT.O]

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Google, Facebook to set aside initial iOS fears with big revenue jump

Editorial Bureau July 27, 2021

Wall Street expects Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc are likely to report a surge in digital ad sales this week after smaller rivals declared soaring demand, boosting expectations that the impact of Apple Inc’s privacy changes has not yet been witnessed. Together, Google and Facebook generated about $70 billion in revenue last quarter through digital […]

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Google widens India cloud services with new infrastructure push

Editorial Bureau July 15, 2021

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is ramping up cloud infrastructure in India with a second cluster of data centres in and around capital New Delhi to meet increasing customer demands in a key growth market, senior company executives said. The Google cloud region in Delhi and its outskirts is the US tech giant’s […]

Europe

Google’s copyright talks with publishers, French anti-trust decision pending

Editorial Bureau July 8, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) -France’s anti-trust watchdog head Isabelle de Silva has informed that it will make a decision in the coming days over the way Google held copyright talks with some French publishers about paying for news content. Antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet’s Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how

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US states level allegation on Google for ‘unlawfully’ protecting Play Store monopoly

Editorial Bureau July 8, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) -Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general sued Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday, alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones. The allegations about Google’s Play Store stem from an investigation involving nearly every US state that