European Union vs. Google

Türkiye's Competition Board has launched a probe into Google to investigate the allegations that the company abuses its dominant position in the market.

The authority completed its preliminary assessments regarding the entity, which consists of Alphabet Inc., Google LLC., Google International LLC., Google Ireland Limited and Google's Turkish advertising unit.

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The U.S. Justice Department sued Google on Jan. 24 for its dominance of the online advertising market, launching a fresh legal battle against the California-based tech giant.

The federal antitrust suit accused Google of unlawfully maintaining a monopoly that had "corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry."

Turkish authorities on April 14 fined Google 296 million Turkish liras ($36.6 million) for violating the country's competition law.

Turkey's Competition Authority said Google violated the law by complicating organic search results in the content services market by prominently placing text ads at the top of its general search results, excluding its competitors.

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.

EU regulators hit Google with a record 4.34 billion euros ($5 billion) antitrust fine on July 18 for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will on Wednesday levy a 4.3-billion-euro ($5 billion) on Google (GOOGL.O) for using its dominant Android mobile operating system to block rivals, a person familiar with the matter said.

The Android Nougat statue unveiled at Google campus in Mountain View.

EU antitrust regulators plan to order Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed.

The European Union is broadening its battle with Google, alleging that the technology giant rigs the global market for mobile apps by making sure its Android operating system gives preferential treatment to its own products.

The EU on April 22 formally charged Russian gas giant Gazprom with abusing its dominant market position in Europe, risking a new battle with the Kremlin and deepening the crisis over Ukraine.

The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Gazprom, accusing the Russian company of abusing its dominant market position and breaching EU antitrust rules.

Ir also says that Bulgaria is among the most heavily affected countries by what it describes as disputable practices on behalf of the Russian energy giant.