Google loses in Russian antitrust appeal

Google vs. in Russia. In a ruling on Monday, March 14th, the Moscow Arbitration court found Alphabet’s Google guilty of unfair practices. The original complaint, filed by Yandex (the Russian Google) argued that Google’s Android contract violated competition rules by requiring phone makes to pre-install certain Google services to get access to the Google Play app store.

The ruling was initially handed down by the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), which naturally caused an appeal from Google. Said appeal has now been rejected, meaning Google will need to amend it’s contracts with Russian OEMs to comply with the regulations. When asked for a statement, a Google spokesperson said, “We are not commenting, as we have not as yet received the judgement.”

This ruling does not affect Google’s business practices throughout the rest of Europe, but the European Commission’s own investigation of Google’s practices is ongoing and this Russian ruling could certainly have an adverse affect on them and the 80% European market share that Google now enjoys.

Please see our other articles (below) detailing the antitrust battles between Google, the EU and other markets around the world:

Google dodging the bullet:

Google breakup?

As stated previously, stay tuned.

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Married to my best friend since 1987. We have six grand-children and three great-grandchildren. Began writing for Bane-Tech August 2014, due to an ever-growing passion for mobile and Android in particular. Computer programmer 1981 to 2015. Currently retired. Active You Tuber (Mobile Geezer: Twitter - https://twitter.com/MobileGeezer Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mobilegeezer/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MobileGeezer Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/b/106433550154529693622/?pageId=106433550154529693622). Sax player and singer in various bands (rock and R&R) since the mid 60's. Avid motorcycle rider (Gold Wing), bicyclist and exercise enthusiast. Extreme lover of driving and biking (motorcycle). The more thousand miles the trip, the happier I am as the driver. Dedicated, Bible-believing Christian who makes no judgments on others .