{"id":101064,"date":"2016-08-12T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101064"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:02:03","slug":"google-fined-r90-million-for-pre-installing-android-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101064-google-fined-r90-million-for-pre-installing-android-apps","title":{"rendered":"Google fined R90 million for pre-installing Android apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has received a<strong> $6.75 million<\/strong> anti-trust fine in Russia for requiring phone manufacturers to pre-install its apps on Android mobile devices, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/8\/12\/12450192\/russia-google-antitrust-fine-android\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The same lawsuit is currently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/4\/20\/11233672\/eu-android-antitrust-complaint\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ongoing<\/strong> <\/a>in the EU, &#8220;accusing the company of abusing its dominant position in the market by forcing manufacturers to preinstall its services on Android devices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The result may not go the same way in Europe, as popular search engine Yandex was the main driving force for the suit in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The claims don&#8217;t stop there however, as Russia&#8217;s antitrust watchdog, the FSA, already has its next target, and has opened up a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russia-antitrust-body-opens-case-into-possible-price-fixing-against-apple-1470663507\" target=\"_blank\">new investigation <\/a><\/strong>into claims that Apple is involved in price-fixing for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if this sparks a wave of similar suits in other countries or whether the reason they were successful at all is because of Russia&#8217;s harsher competition laws.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The 10 best extensions for Google Chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/99142-the-10-best-extensions-for-google-chrome.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The 10 best extensions for Google Chrome<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The first country to ban Pokemon GO\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/100766-the-first-country-to-ban-pokemon-go.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The first country to ban Pokemon GO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99350-how-to-buy-an-oculus-rift-from-south-africa-what-it-will-cost.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has been hit with a R90 million anti-trust fine for pre-installing apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":91903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,947,5496,19353,1638,18679],"class_list":["post-101064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-apps","tag-fine","tag-google","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101078,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101064\/revisions\/101078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}