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Google rivals complain to EU about Android

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 9, 2013

The group wanted the European Commission to act quickly to prevent Google from repeating “its desktop abuses” in mobile, lawyer Thomas Vinje said in a statement.

The U.S. government concluded a two-year investigation into Google earlier this year with a ruling that the search engine company did not breach U.S. antitrust laws.

But a similar investigation by EU regulators, launched in November 2010, remains open, and preliminary findings released last year found the company was violating European law in four ways.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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