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Turkey's competition authority on Dec. 17 reiterated that Google should "completely" comply with the Turkish law as it has done in other countries.

In September 2018, Turkey's competition board fined Google 93 million Turkish liras ($15 million) for violating competition law related to the offering of Android, its mobile operation system, as well as mobile apps and services.

Google is working with Turkish officials to resolve an issue involving preloaded Android apps for smart devices "as quickly as possible," the tech giant said on Dec. 16, adding that the effect of the issue is limited to newly introduced phone models, not existing ones.

The head of the Department for Emergency Situations, Raed Arafat, presented on Friday evening a milestone report that provides for 14 measures for the reorganization of the 112 emergency response service.

On Friday, Huawei unveiled its new Linux-based operating system, Harmony OS. The move comes after the Chinese tech giant was placed in May in the so-called. a "blacklist" of the United States, which threatens permission in the future to continue to use Google's Android operating system on its smartphones.

Huawei's own Harmony OS will be open source.

US company Google has acknowledged that its subcontractors can listen to recordings of what people are saying, using the artificial intelligence system Google Assistant.

Regarding the news released by Reuters that "Google suspends its business relationship with Huawei following the announcement of the Trump trade blacklist," we would like to give you the following Huawei official statement:

The question of what's better - having an Android or iOS smartphone, has been going on for years.

Both operating systems have their pros and cons.

However, some features are only available on Android phones. It is to them that will be mentioned in the following lines.

This is the third fine for the US company in the past two years, Reuters is reporting.

Last year, EU regulators penalized Google with a record EUR 4.34 billion because the company used its Android operating system to block rivals.
This came after a fine of EUR 2.42 billion imposed on the company in 2017 for abusing its dominant market position.

About one million mobile phone subscribers in Greece are estimated to have malicious apps or malware installed on their devices, Upstream CEO Guy Krief told Kathimerini, shortly after the Greek firm's security experts uncovered a suspicious China-made Android weather app.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's antitrust watchdog Cade is considering opening an investigation into Google over alleged abuses in its cell phone operating system, the president of the agency said in an interview published on Wednesday in newspaper Valor Economico.