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european in 2014 accused Google of abusing its dominance in net search market
Brussels also charged Google in April regarding its Android platform
Google dangers a satisfactory identical to an quantity of $7.4 billion
Google faces sparkling eu anti-opposition prices, this time concentrated on the hunt engine large‘sadvertising commercial enterprise, sources close to the problem instructed AFP on Tuesday.
Margrethe Vestager, the powerful ecu opposition Commissioner, should open new in-intensityinvestigations towards Google as early as August, the resources said on situation of anonymity.
the first case might contain the Silicon Valley giant‘s beneficial advertising and marketing enterprise,even as the second would deepen an existing case concentrated on on-line buying practices.
the ecu in 2014 accused Google of abusing its dominance within the internet search marketplace to persuade eu consumers to its very own buying carrier.
A spokesman for the european commission refused to comment on the record.
In April, Brussels also charged Google with abusing the dominance of its Android mobile phone runningdevice. The Android working gadget bills for approximately eighty percentage of the world market forcell phones, a ways ahead of Google’s closest rival, Apple.
the eu has accused Google of obstructing innovation via giving unfair prominence to its personal Android apps, particularly its seek engine, in offers with mobile telephone manufacturers which includesSamsung and Huawei.
If located at fault, Google dangers a first-rate identical to up to 10 percent of world global sales for 12 months, which would amount to a $7.4 billion (more or less Rs. 50,199 crores) on the basis of 2015revenues.
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