Google being investigated by Russian competition watchdog over Android

Anti-monopoly authority confirms investigation following complaints from competitor Yandex, alleging company abuses smartphone operating system domination

Russia's competition watchdog has confirmed that it is investigating Google over allegedly abusing its domination of Android smartphone software on phones made by third party manufacturers.

The watchdog opened the case to assess whether Google has violated Russian anti-monopoly laws after reviewing a complaint from Russia's biggest search company Yandex. It has complained that Android's default search is Google and that the mobile software includes a bundle of Google apps.

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