Google has settled its long-running court battle with the Russian search engine Yandex.
The Moscow-based company had accused the search giant's parent, Alphabet, of undermining competition by forcing phone makers to preinstall a set bundle of Google apps on Android.
Per the terms of the settlement, Google must ditch those restrictions in the country. Russian antitrust regulators also fined the company $7.8 million.
While Google never outright required manufacturers to pre-load its apps, its previous rules made it so that companies producing Android-powered phones had to either install all of Google's core apps — Gmail, a browser with Google default search, and, most importantly, the Google Play app store — or none at all. Read more...
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