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Google’s Android is the operating system used in more than 80 per cent of the world’s smartphones and is vital to the group’s future revenues as more users search on their mobile gadgets
Google braced for Brussels penalty over abuse of market dominance

Brussels is preparing to hit Google next month for abusing its dominance through the Android mobile operating system, concluding the most important of(...)

John McGuirk, communications director of the Save the 8th campaign. Photograph: Nic Bradshaw.
Referendum advertising rules hit strategies for final fortnight

“We are here in Dublin with ProtectThe8th this morning. Pray for us! #warroomsessions”, said the Facebook posting by Fuzati, conveying something of a (...)

Google braced for potential €1bn fine from EU antitrust case

Google is braced for a fine of potentially more than €1 billion as Brussels prepares to announce the first of its trio of antitrust decisions on the s(...)

Overall, Irish authorities put forward 38 requests for information regarding nearly 100 users or accounts in 2016
Irish authorities petition Google for information on users and accounts

Google received 19 requests for information regarding 34 users or accounts from Irish authorities during the second half of 2016, new figures show. T(...)

The Commission plans to hand down hefty fines to Google if found guilty of breaching EU rules
Google formally rejects European Union antitrust charges

Google on Thursday formally rejected European Union antitrust charges of unfairly promoting its shopping service and blocking rivals in online search (...)

The accusation that Google is abusing the dominant market position of its Android operating system is the latest in a series of clampdowns by the European Commission on US multinational companies. File photograph: Peter Power/Reuters
EU accuses Google of abusing its market dominance

The European Union opened the latest front in its battle against US internet giant Google on Wednesday, as it charged the company with abusing the do(...)

Google, which is changing its structure by establishing a new company called Alphabet, could face a fine as a result of the investigation. Photograph: Reuters
Google hits back at ‘peculiar and problematic’ EU commission demands

Google has hit back at what it called “peculiar and problematic” demands by European Union competition regulators to change the way it displays sea(...)

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