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Google is facing new Android antitrust issues in Europe

18
Jun
2014

The European Union, which is working on finishing up its investigation of Google’s Search business in Europe, may soon look into Google’s Android app store-related business practices, GigaOm reveals. Portugal’s Aptoide, an alternative Android app source that houses more than 200,000 titles and has more than 6 million active users, met with the European Commissions last week in preparation for its complaint submission. Aptoide is apparently annoyed with Google for making the life of third-party Android app stores miserable. The company says that it can’t submit a fully functional third-party app store to the Google Play Store due to the non-compete clause that govern Google’s store. Furthermore, the company says that Google has made it increasingly difficult in new Android OS versions

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