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BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 The European Union’s competition chief is filing an antitrust complaint alleging Google has been abusing its dominance in Internet searches and is opening a probe into its Android mobile system.<\/p>\n

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EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Wednesday she is “concerned that the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service.”<\/p>\n

Vestager said the separate antitrust probe into Android will investigate whether the Internet giant relies on anti-competitive deals and abuses its dominant position in Europe’s mobile market.<\/p>\n

Vestager said her chief goal was to make sure multinationals “do not artificially deny European consumers as wide a choice as possible or stifle innovation”.<\/p>\n

Google’s general counsel Kent Walker wrote late Tuesday that a “statement of objections” to Google’s business practices was to be released by Vestager Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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