Google has been fined 438 million rubles ($6.75 million) by the Russian antitrust authority for abusing its market position following a complaint by Yandex, Russia’s biggest search engine. Google has been found guilty of forcing Android smartphone makers to install its search engine on their devices, which has been seen to breach "protecting competition" laws. Yelena Zayeva, the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service’s (FAS) department for regulating communications and IT says that the ruling "will allow the development of competition on the mobile software market in Russia, which will have a positive effect for consumers". In response, Google says: "We have received notice… [Continue Reading]