Google Files for an Appeal Against the EU’s $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine Xiaomi...

Google Files for an Appeal Against the EU's $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine Xiaomi... xda-developers Sep 12, 2017 1:17 AM • by Doug Lynch Google Files for an Appeal Against the EU's $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine Google has been under scrutiny in countries within Europe as well as Russia. In Russia, they were forced to let users pick which default search engine they wanted to use. There have been multiple battles in Europe with one focusing on Google Search exclusivity and the other accusing them of manipulating shopping results. This shopping results investigation is a big deal too and it was enough to warrant the European Union's largest fine at $2.7 billion (€2.4 billion). The investigation resulted in the EU believing that Google "abused its market dominance as a search engine to promote its own comparison shopping service in search results." Doing so, and demoting rival comparison shopping services is against EU antitrust rules and if found guilty, would force Google to pay a hefty fine for it. However, the Mountain View giant stands behind their belief that any changes were made to improve the user experience but they were still required to submit proposals for changes. During this appeal process, the company will need to made changes to its search results that are in compliance with current EU rules. If the appeal is successful though, then they can change things back to how they were before. This appeal is critical for Google as it faces potential fines and demands for other types of "vertical search" results (such as maps/local, travel and other categories). They faced a similar antitrust case back in 2015 when UK-based Streetmap sued the Mountain View tech giant. The company ended up winning that lawsuit as the courts believed Google's services didn't seem to appreciably "affect competition in the market for online maps." So it will be up to these comparison shopping websites to prove Google's changes impacted their service. The company is currently involved in two other antitrust cases in the EU with one pertaining to exclusivity provisions in AdWords agreements and the other dealing with the app-install requirements in contracts with Android-OEMs. Source: The Telegraph Android Advices Sep 11, 2017 2:46 PM • by Karunakar Donthamshetti Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 with 5.99″ Border-less Display & Snapdragon 835 SoC Launched Finally, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 smartphone has unveiled at an event operated in Beijing, China, which is the successor of the Xiaomi Mi Mix phone was launched last year. It comes with a ceramic body with 7-series aluminum frame, and four sided curved design which produces not only comfortable grip in your hand and also returns durable. Like Mi Mix, this phone houses a fingerprint sensor which has located at the back side for unlocking a device, the volume rockers and power button placed at the right edge of the apparatus. The Mi Mix 2 smartphone sports a single rear camera which contains a 12MP sensor with Sony IMX386, 1.25um pixel, and 4-axis OIS, which is the same sensor we have seen on the Xiaomi Mi 6 and Mi Max 2 smartphone. On the front, it rocks a 5.99-inch bezel-less display with 18:9 aspect ratio which is the 12% smaller than its predecessor of the 6.4-inch screen. Also, it takes 93% of the total front exterior of the device, and just below the screen, it has given the 5MP front-facing camera just like Mi Mix and Doogee Mix. This phone is equipped with a 3400mAh capacity battery. It features a sound controlled speaker and an ultrasonic proximity sensor located above the display. Under the hood, it comes packed with a 2.35GHz Snapdragon 835 octa-core processor coupled with Adreno 540 graphics and 6GB of RAM, which would deliver great multitasking experience when you run heavy loaded games and applications. There are 64GB, 128GB and 256GB storage options which might not be supported the external memory. It is a dual SIM phone carried by a 4G LTE connectivity. Unlike the Mi Mix, this smartphone has removed 3.5mm stereo jack on the Mi Mix 2 phone. Other connectivity options include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, USB Type-C port, GPS/A-GPS navigation support and more. The Mi Mix 2 smartphone is priced at 3299 Yuan for 64GB + 6GB RAM model, 3599 Yuan for 128GB + 6GB RAM variant and 3999 Yuan for the 256GB + 6GB RAM option. Also, this phone is providing the special edition of the device which is in White color option which is priced at 4699 Yuan for 128GB + 8GB RAM model. This email has been sent by Froze ONE (isnanmm0@gmail.com). It is the potion result of 'Tech: Topic watch' from the dashboard 'Personal Dashboard', tab 'Tech > Android'. Unsubscribe © Netvibes 2005-2017 | Terms of service | Privacy Policy Find Netvibes also on: Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr

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