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Antitrust chief: Google’s restrictions on Android device makers breach EU law

Google faces more competition charges in the European Union, after the 28-member-state bloc's antitrust commissioner concluded in a preliminary decision that the company had abused its dominant position by imposing restriction on Android device makers.

A Statement of Objections—which outlines Brussels' charges—has been sent to Google this morning, competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said during a press conference on...

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Volkswagen CEO may have known about defeat device scandal in 2014

Martin Winterkorn (credit: GovernmentZA)

The New York Times has obtained internal e-mails and memos from Volkswagen Group that may suggest that top executives within the company were aware as early as 2014 that many of their diesel vehicles had illegal emissions control-cheating software.

Volkswagen has maintained that only a small number of engineers knew about...

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Google’s new data-only Project Fi tablet plans don’t charge device fees

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Google's invite-only Project Fi MVNO experiment is still small, but today Google is expanding it beyond phones for a small subset of devices. Existing Project Fi subscribers (so, people who have received an invite and are using a Nexus 6, 5X, or 6P) will soon be able to add tablets to their plans using new data-only...

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