mirror : Russia fines Google £5m for search engine competition breach as electronic warfare bid is £25m flop

Russia fines Google £5m for search engine competition breach as electronic warfare bid is £25m flop

Russia has fined Google £5 million for "competition violation" after its state-sponsored bid to compete with the search engine was a £25 million flop.State-owned telecoms company Sputnik spent the whopping sum – employing more than 25% of the population – since being launched in May 2014.Today Russian Government department the Federal Antimonopoly Service announced it was fining Google 438 million rubles – £5,200,908 – "for violation of competition in the market for mobile applications".

Russian Antimonopoly Service fines Google $6.7 mln

Russian Antimonopoly Service fines Google $6.7 mln© flickr.com/Robert Scoble15:55 11/08/2016MOSCOW, August 11 (RAPSI) – The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) fined Google Inc. with 438 million rubles ($6.7 million) for violating antimonopoly legislation by preinstalling applications on Android smartphones, the antimonopoly watchdog's statement reads on Thursday.On September 18, 2015, FAS found Google guilty of violation the legislation.On March 15 2016, the Moscow Commercial Court dismissed Google's petition requesting to abolish the FAS decision and order issued in September 2015, which stated that the company had violated the Federal Law on Protection of Competition and accusing it of abuse of dominance on the market of preinstalled applications in the Android operating system.

Russia fines Google $6.7 million over anti-trust charge

Russia's largest search engine Yandex asked anti-trust authorities to prevent Android phones from being automatically bundled with Google's search engine Russia's anti-trust authority on Thursday fined Google 438 million rubles ($6.75 million) after finding it guilty of abusing its dominant market position by forcing smartphone makers to install its search engine on Androids.The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) in September last year deemed Google in breach of a law on "protecting competition" after an investigation following a complaint by Russia's largest search engine, Yandex.Yandex asked the anti-trust authorities to prevent Android phones from being automatically bundled with Google's search engine.