Synopsis: Domenii: Ict: Ict generale: Communication systems: Telecommunication: Computer networks:


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#Google is now Alphabet (well, sort of: the internet reacts Google reign of terror is over! Well, not quite:

the preeminent search engine isn going to go the way of Askjeeves and Altavista, the company is simply rebranding itself with a new holding company called Alphabet,

Google. Desperately googling Alphabet? No need. Let Larry page and Sergey Brin, Google cofounders, explain: e liked Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity most important inventions,

and is the core of how we index with Google search. s well as being ne ofhumanity most important inventions,

Alphabet is also a really great name for a sinister uber-corporation in a dystopian sci-fi novel,

an internet domain registry company that owns a range of suffices including. college. His latest client?

The new parent company of Google, which can be found at abc. xyz. Daniel reacted with the appropriate gravitas:

To give Google credit where credit is did due, they at least manage to mock the megalomaniacal nature of their own announcement,

throwing in a link to Hooli. xyz, clearly a reference to the Google-esque Hooli from HBO Silicon valley.

though, spare a thought for the owner of twitter. com/alphabet, who must have been having an interesting 24 hours.

The internet has been reacting with confusion, horror and mockery to the announcement, as you would expect.

One user managed to explain the complex ownership structure of the Alphabet/Google nexus in Simpsonian terms:

Finally, it worth mentioning that Google have announced also a radical shake-up to their corporate management structure,


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#Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails

said an unattributed statement on the Ashley Madison website. ntil the appointment of a new CEO,

In July details of more than 37m accounts were stolen from the website whose tagline is: ife is short.

and dedicated employeesand that it remained teadfast in our commitment to our customer base That customer base personal information was spread far and wide across the internet earlier this month,

a Twitter user (or, as Krebs speculates, users) called Thadeus Zu posted a link to the hack before anyone else

The third and latest data dump, posted at the site that first released the user database,

appears to be a download of emails from Biderman personal Gmail account. The second torrent released by an entity calling itself the Impact Team contained emails that seemed to be from Biderman work account

and its release had done already damage to his personal reputation: the executive told the New york daily news in 2014 that he had cheated never on his wife,


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the home alarm seemed ripe for an overhaul for the internet age. e were surprised...that the technology had moved not really on since the 80s,


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#Google is reorganizing and Sundar Pichai will become new CEO In a blog post today,

Google cofounder Larry page announced a massive restructuring of the company, instituting Sundar Pichai as CEO and shifting himself and cofounder Sergey Brin to a larger holding company called Alphabet.

As CEO and President of Alphabet, Page and Brin will oversee Google as well as affiliated companies like the life extension project Calico and a drone delivery venture called Wing.

Alphabet will also direct Google's early-stage funding operations, dubbed Capital and Ventures. Under the new organization, each of those operations will have its own CEO and leadership

while Pichai and Google retain control of search, ads, maps, the Google Play Store, Youtube, and Android.

The reorganization also involves significant financial restructuring, as detailed in an associated SEC filing. All Google shares will now be traded as shares of the larger Alphabet holding company, news that drove the company's share price up more than four percentage points in the wake of the announcement."

"Wee long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing,

the former CHROME OS and Android chief who has played an increasingly central role in Google's day-to-day operations."

and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google, "Page said in the post."

"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google

it's an extension of a shift that's been ongoing within Google for some time, with Brin and Page increasingly interested in ambitious projects launched through Google X or outside funding.

Alphabet formalizes that division, separating Google's traditional products from the more ambitious ventures that critics have accused of distracting from the company's core strengths.

It remains to be seen how the new divisions will play out in practice, but the intention seems to be renewed a focus on both Google's current products

and the moonshots that aim to replace those products as Alphabet's focus in the decades to come."


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In addition to the streams, Apple says the album also sold half a million downloads through itunes a solid performance that was not quite enough to push it to number one in the US charts.

hip-hop's current kings are already old hands at disseminating their music to a huge and internet-literate fanbase.

Both artists used Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks to build suspense for their newest records,

and released them on multiple streaming services, securing more listeners than Compton could with its Apple-first approach a


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#Google has a new logo Google is introducing a new logo today. Just a month after unveiling a major restructuring of the company,

Google is updating its image, too. The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it's now using a sans-serif typeface,

making it look a lot more modern and playful. The colors are also softer than they used to be.

The logo bears a bit more resemblance to the logo of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, as well.

As Google's video introducing the new logo notes the wordmark has been evolving ever since it was created in 1998.

when Google first cleaned up the lettering and settled on its four colors. Since then, the logo has just been flattened out more and more,

Google is also changing the tiny"g"logo that you see on browser tabs. It's now going to be an uppercase"G"that's striped in all four of Google's colors.

Google says that the new design will be rolling out across all of its products soon in fact

it's already on Google's homepage, with a cute animation that wipes away the old logo and draws in the new one.

So why did Google decide to make the change? In a blog post, Google discusses how much technology has changed how we interact with its products and with the internet at large.

It doesn't really settle on a specific reason that a redesign was needed, but it says that this logo should better reflect the reality that Google is no longer a site you visit on a desktop computer it's a huge collection of sites, apps,

and services that you visit on PCS, Chromebooks, smartphones, and anywhere you can find a web browser.

Google writes that its new logo is meant to reflect"this reality and show you when the Google magic is working for you,

even on the tiniest screens.""Making the logo look good on small screens seems to have been a major consideration.

The new, simpler lettering is supposed to scale better to smaller sizes, making the wordmark more distinct and easier to read.

It's also supposed to be easier for Google to display on low-bandwidth connections:

Google says that it's made a version of its logo that's"only 305 bytes,

compared to our existing logo at 14,000 bytes.""Given that one of new Google CEO Sundar Pichai's big goals is to bring the internet and Google,

of course to areas of the globe that don't already have it, that small difference is definitely going to be an important one r


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who chose the occasion to launch a new web destination called Makerbase. Dash described it as cross between Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database,

but for the app economy. Innovators can add themselves to Makerbase or others can add them to the current database of projects.


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#How do you laugh on Facebook? LOS ANGELES-How do you express laughter in a Facebook post?

By saying LOL, Haha or Hehe? The folks at Facebook recently crunched the numbers of the billions of daily posts to see how its members expressed their humor,

and they found that 15%use laughter of some kind in a post. At one point, the acronym surely would have been LOL,

Facebook looked at posts in May to come up with these conclusions and also researched specific cities,

A quick note that the desktop version of Facebook doesn offer many opportunities to attach digital laughs,

you need to go to the Facebook Messenger mobile app, where not only are there tons of way more emoji syymbols available for your posts,


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Google shares jump off Alphabet announcement Here's a surprise that shareholders seemed to like: Google shocked Wall street Monday afternoon after suddenly announcing the creation of Alphabet, its new publicly traded parent company.

Shares of Google were up more than 6%during Tuesday morning trading. Let's take a look at the tech stocks to watch Tuesday:

Google (GOOG: Google's new overlord will contain its zany experimental ventures, such as its driverless cars,

and 3g-beaming balloons, while Google (now a subsidiary of Alphabet) will"slim down "and exclude companies that are not a part of its core internet business.

Sundar Pichai will be the new CEO of Google, while Google cofounders Larry page and Sergey Brin will head Alphabet.

Twitter (TWTR: Twitter's stock was back down to red Tuesday morning after bouncing back Monday.

Interim CEO Jack Dorsey showed a bid of confidence in the lagging company Monday, buying more than 31,000 shares of Twitter for about $875, 000.

Following Dorsey's purchase, shares jumped 9%to close at $29. 50 on Monday. The company also pleased investors after announcing an expanded deal with the NFL,

which will streamline more of the leagues content on the platform. Company shares were down more than 1%Tuesday morning.

Symantec (SYMC: Symantec announced plans to sell its data storage business, Veritas, for $8 billion cash.

According to Reuters, the company will sell Veritas to a group including Carlyle Group and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC.

Company shares were down more than 1%during Tuesday morning trading. Apple (AAPL: Apple shares have been quite volatile lately.


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#Tinder goes on Twitter rant over'Vanity fair'article Popular dating app Tinder erupted into a storm of angry,


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#Twitter drops character limit for direct messages witter users will no longer be confined to 140 characters

The social network says it has removed limits on the length of a direct message, allowing users to send tweets at whatever length they choose.

However, Twitter says the standard public tweet will remain 140 characters.""Today change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun,

says Twitter product manager Sachin Agarwal in a blog post detailing the changes. The change rolls out starting today across Twitter's mobile apps, desktop and web clients and Tweetdeck,

and continue rolling out globally over the next few weeks s


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#Virtual reality comes into the store VENICE BEACH, Calif. elcome to this reality-a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,

and also take a 360 degree immersive video trip to Peru. Shoppers at Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles,

Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus, which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.

and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.


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Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.

and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.


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Facebook and Google operate overseas. The European Court of Justice examined the case of an Austrian citizen who claimed that his data,

wasn't being protected adequately by Facebook. No appeal is possible as the European Court of Justice is the equivalent of the U s. Supreme court. The ruling comes as European leaders

when users post on social media, search the web, buy items online and other activities. Companies use this information to direct ads

and promote products. Without the Safe harbor rules, in place since 2000, each country in the European union could potentially set is own privacy rules

That could change because of the lawsuit brought last year against Facebook by Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems.

Schrems filed the case in Ireland, Facebook European headquarters. The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court."

"Schrems said in a statement posted on his Twitter account after Tuesday's ruling. In a statement, Facebook said Europe's Advocate General had been very clear the issue was not Facebook per se,

but the mechanisms that European law provides to enable essential transatlantic data flows. The company said it was imperative that the EU


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including Oculusparent Facebook, in envisioning VR for shopping. That vision is still fluid for vretail,

Venturebeat is studying email marketing tools. Chime in, and wel share the data with you. Physical stores have become the most exciting new dimension for digital marketing.

and data collection that optimizes customer flow in the store in a way similar to how Google analytics helps optimize visitor flow on a website.


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#Why Google Project Fi could be the beginning of the end for Verizon and AT&T Google made an exciting announcement Wednesday,

confirming plans to launch its own wireless service, Project Fi. The service will leverage existing Wi-fi networks

Google announcement is a great thing for the wireless industry the Wi-fi First industry and ultimately, a great thing for consumers.

and Google is the company to pave the way (and do so quickly). Given its size and influence in the device space,

Google Project Fi could help accelerate the adoption of Wi-fi First through a couple of key moves.

Google has the opportunity to speed up this adoption by creating standards and device requirements that would make Wi-fi connections more mainstream,

At the same time Google ushers in Wi-fi First to the masses, its wireless vision could fundamentally transform the role major carriers play in the market.

When you buy a phone through Google, Google will manage the relationship with Verizon instead of you.

When Wi-fi isn available, your device will automatically select which network it should connect to based on availability,

Youe buying the phone from Google, youe paying Google, and youe calling Google support if you experience any issues.

If Google move means consumers now have billing relationships with only Google, Verizon brand (which the company spends more than a billion dollars promoting each year) is diminished.

This model commoditizes the wireless carriers while simultaneously putting downward pressure on their margins. As such, the Wi-fi First business model eliminates erizonfrom consumersvernacular,

Based on Google track record, if there is any player that can take down Verizon and AT&T, who have been upselling consumers on wireless service that isn efficient

or cost-effective for decades, it Google. And it only a matter of time before carriersrelevance to smartphone subscribers everywhere is diminished.


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Stratos will also have to contend with digital wallets like Google Wallet Apple Passbook, and Paypal,


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#Google Alphabet: Where the brand vision? This week, Google grew up. Taking many in the business world by surprise,

the tech giant restructured itself under a new holding company, Alphabet. The shake-up means many of the oonshotprojects Google picked up over the years have been spun off into separate and independent companies,

while Google retains the most profitable side: search and advertising. To many, Alphabet will make a lot of sense.

Google had started to seem like a mega-conglomerate that was too powerful for its own good

and this will help change that. But there is a problem. Google is an exciting and innovative brand.

The company has spawned belief statements learned by heart by brand strategists and copied by businesses across the world.

more accountable and more management scalemakes Google sound more like a financial services firm than the innovative tech company we know and love.

Finally, Google vision, or the way it sees its position in the world, has always been core to its brand,

and increased Google market cap by $20 billion overnight, but how will Google employees, some of the brightest,

most creative people in the world, react to this new, corporate focus? After all, these are the same software engineers who are encouraged to design their own desks

People work for Google because it exciting, but the messaging wee heard this week has been anything but.

and could be a brilliant way of bringing order to Google complexity, the language surrounding the announcement also hints at new limitations,

Alphabet must still include the spirit of Google brand values within the new company and concede less to the financial markets


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#Hackers dump data from cheating website Ashley Madison online: reports (Reuters) Hackers have followed through on a threat to release online a huge cache of data,

that was stolen a month ago from cheating spouses website Ashleymadison. com, several tech websites reported on Tuesday.

Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the authenticity of the posting. The data was posted onto the dark web,

meaning it is only accessible using a specialized browser, although lists of email addresses have sprouted

since up on other sites. A group calling itself Impact Team had leaked snippets of the compromised data in July

and threatened to publish names and salacious details about clients unless Ashley Madison and Establishedmen. com,

another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down. Tech website Wired said 9. 7 gigabytes of data was posted,

and appeared to include member account and credit card details. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,

have did an affair not immediately respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment s


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#Google becomes part of a new company, Alphabet Google chief executive Larry page on Monday announced that the tech giant is undergoing a major restructuring

and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of a new conglomerate known as Alphabet. The move, Page said,

will allow Google to focus more on its core products, including its search engine, while Alphabet manages a variety of different businesses,

including driverless cars and drones.""What is Alphabet?""Page wrote.""Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies.

The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is slimmed a bit down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead."

"Other companies within Alphabet will include Calico and Life sciences, the parts of Google that focus on health products.

Page said the company's X lab, which focuses on moon-shot projects such as Google's drone delivery service,

also will be part of Alphabet, as will its investment arms, Ventures and Capital. The move comes as Google struggles to maintain focus as its portfolio grows

and its interests spread across various industries. That sprawl has attracted recently criticism from investors, who wondered whether the company could remain innovative with so many distractions.

Page will be chief executive of Alphabet while Google cofounder Sergey Brin will become president. Sundar Pichai, who is Google's senior vice president of Android,

Chrome and Apps, will become Google's chief executive. Page said, "Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity

and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights."

"The company's two classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG,

he said. So what stays a part of the core Google business? According to the company's Securities and exchange commission filing, the main Google business will include"search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android,

"as well as the technical infrastructure for those departments. Most of the top Google executives will become Alphabet executives,

the filing said. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Chief Financial officer Ruth Porat and chief legal officer David Drummond will take up corresponding positions within Alphabet.

Porat will also remain the CFO of Google. Google, one of the few companies to actually become a verb, hardly needs introduction.

The firm was started by Larry page and Sergey Brin in 1997 after the two met as students at Stanford university.

Before Google, the two worked together on a search engine called Backrub, which they operated on the servers at Stanford for more than a year.

The pair registered the domain name"Google. com"on Sept. 17,1998, with the mission to organize all of the world's information.

The company went public in 2004. It is worth $443. 9 billion and handles an estimated 67 percent of the country's desktop searches and 83 percent of its mobile searches, according to Comscore.

Internationally, Netmarketshare puts Google's global desktop search share at 70 percent. While the company has held always search at its core

it has expanded into several different areas. Investors and analysts have criticized Google in recent years for spending so much on these"side projects

"and have called repeatedly on Page to streamline Google's purpose. Google shares were up more than 5 percent in after-hours trading on the news, at $665. 99 per share. p


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#Verizon new, experimental Fios service is 10 times faster than Google Fiber Verizon's Fios network is already capable of top speeds of 500 megabits per second,

which lets you download an HD movie in about 15 seconds. But the Fios of tomorrow could be as much as 20 times faster than even those blazing speeds.

Verizon has just finished testing a next-generation fiber-optic Internet technology that allows the company to transfer data at rates of 10 gigabits per second.

For those keeping track, that's 10 times faster than even Google Fiber, which offers some of the speediest fiber you can buy today.

Verizon believes its new technology called NG-PON2 hort for"next-generation passive optical network"ould eventually grow to support speeds of 80 Gbps. That's thousands of times faster than

what most average U s. households get today. Fiber-optic cables work by sending data that's been encoded as packets of light.

even if it did the demonstration shows just how fast the Internet will someday become. That capacity will be used to accommodate new technologies like driverless cars,

Here how much Comcast is charging for its answer to Google Fibercharlottesville is about to get oogle Fiber lite,

thanks to this small wireless carriergoogle ultra-fast Internet service expands to San Antoni p


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These signals travel through walls just as Wireless internet signals do. Data from body parts that curve away from the device won be recognized


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These signals travel through walls just as Wireless internet signals do. Data from body parts that curve away from the device won be recognized


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Alexandria University agricultural and biosystems engineering associate professor Ahmed El-Shafei was quoted by Yahoo News as saying:"


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and in which internet penetration while still low (46 percent) compared to Western europe standards (though ahead of many other countries in the MENA region)."

then, was following the footsteps of ebay and Amazon, with the hope of sooner or later being acquired by an established company.

In 2011, ebay bought auction marketplace Gittigidiyor, essentially a clone of the American multinational, for $22m.

and innovation is confined longer to auction sites, the wave of online retail websites is still rampant:

recently, celebrity-endorsed fashion shopping site Lydiana. com now serves over 90,000 customers per day,

while Yemeksepeti (also known as foodonclick), an online food delivery platform which employs more than 200 staff serving over 1. 2 million registered users in eight countries.

"Most common companies we see are based internet ones that do need not to much initial funding to thrive.

Not to mention the effect that bans on sites such as Twitter and Youtube have, like those repeatedly ensued by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,

have to rely on social media for their marketing efforts. Other common complaints concern the difficulties of securing work visas for international employees and some negative cultural aspects


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, Google, Facebook, Amazon) Large, IT-intensive enterprises (e g.,, financial services companies) The emergence of financial services companies as IT providers is something that has been brewing for some time.

"and Bank of america planning"to have 80%of its workloads running on software-defined infrastructure inspired by Web companies."


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#Europe to slug Google with antitrust charges and open Android probe The European commission today formally charged Google with violating EU competition law by abusing its dominance in search to gain an edge over specialist rivals.

The charges could force Google to change the way it does business and pay fines of up to $6. 4bn,

or approximately 10 percent of its global revenues last year. On Wednesday the European commission commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the EC had sent formally a statement of objections to Google.

The statement says Google"abused its dominant position in the markets for general internet search services in the European Economic Area (EEA) by systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its general search results pages"

breaching antitrust law, according to the EC.""In the case of Google I am concerned that the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service, in breach of EU antitrust rules.

Google now has the opportunity to convince the Commission to the contrary. However, if the investigation confirmed our concerns,

Google would have to face the legal consequences and change the way it does business in Europe,

"Vestager said in a statement. A fortnight ago, Vestager sought permission from complainants to publish their claims,

The charges will bring to a head the EC's five-year investigation into Google's business practices in Europe

whether Google used its dominance to give its own specialised searches in shopping, travel and other categories an edge over rivals,

'as well as claims Google reused content from rivals without authorisation, and forced publishers to use Google ads.

According to the FT, some of the 28 commissioners that will be shown the charges today are concerned that Vestager has narrowed the scope of the claims against Google.

ZDNET has sought also comment from Google and will update the story if it receives one.

Google has acknowledged however the charges in a letter to staff yesterday reprinted by Recode, noting that it was"obviously very disappointing news,

"warning staff to expect"tough"criticism. As Google points out though, the statement of objections is not a final finding

and it has the opportunity to respond and have modified the claims-a process that could take two years.

in its memo, Google told staff it has a"very strong case, "that competition was alive and well,

People can use Bing, Yahoo, Quora, Duckduckgo, and a new wave of search assistants like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana,

as well as more specialized services like Amazon, Idealo, Le Guide, Expedia, or ebay. In addition, users increasingly turn to social networks like Facebook

and Twitter to find news and suggestions-where to eat or which movies to watch,

"Google said. The EC on Wednesday confirmed it was opening a probe into Android and whether Google has been breached antitrust law here too."

"The Commission will assess if, by entering into anticompetitive agreements and/or by abusing a possible dominant position,

Google has hindered illegally the development and market access of rival mobile operating systems, mobile communication applications and services in the European Economic Area,

"the EC said. There are three areas the Commission will investigate -whether Google hampered rivals by forcing OEMS to only use Google services;

whether it stopped those OEMS from using and marketing non-Google-controlled versions of Android;

and whether bundling its services with Android has hurt competition. Google also acknowledged the EC's investigation into Android in its memo.

Google has faced a number of complaints from rivals, including over its bundling of Google apps like Youtube

and Maps as well as complaints Google has blocked third-party app stores on Android. Here too, Google says it has a strong case,

since Android had lowered prices and increased choice for consumers and pointed out that Samsung's new Galaxy S6 included pre-installed apps from rivals."

"Consumers decide which apps they use and download on Android devices. Apps that compete directly with Google such as Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft office,

and Expedia are easily available to Android users; and"Many of these apps come pre-loaded onto Android devices.

Google apps, like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Play, are also available out of the box on many handsets.

The recent Samsung S6 is a great example of this-there are pre-installed Facebook, Microsoft,

and Google apps


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