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Google fined $6.8 million in Russia over antitrust violations

article published on 11 August, 2016

Russian officials have fined search giant Google $6.8 million for antitrust violations. The antitrust authorities ruled that Google favored its digital services over those of rivals and did so by abusing their massive market lead with Android. In the ruling, the Federation Antimonopoly Service said that Google blocked out rivals from including their own services on Android, such as Maps, ... [ read the full article ]

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megadunderhead
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_ 		12. August 2016 @ 10:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thats bull crap you can use any map service on android all you have to do is install it from the store they didn't block crap
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Jemborg
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_ 		12. August 2016 @ 18:39 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
They'd shit themselves if Google removed those services. Anyway, I find it risible that Russia, a criminocracy, should care about anti-trust... any successful business there is taken over by their government sanctioned mafia.
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_ 		12. August 2016 @ 21:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by megadunderhead:
 Thats bull crap you can use any map service on android all you have to do is install it from the store they didn't block crap
I think that they are complaining that phones don't come with EVERY VERSION OF EVERY APP pre-installed (not that google is stopping manufacturers from doing that...logic stops them from doing that).
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