Yandex Takes Google Antitrust Battle to EU After Russia
- Yandex seeks to unbundle Google services from Android phones
- Russia ruled September Google had abused market dominance
The Yandex headquarters in Moscow.
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Yandex NV, building on a recent antitrust victory over Google in Russia, said it extended the legal battle to the European Union as it seeks to force its U.S. competitor to unbundle services such as search from mobile devices using the Android operating system in the region.
Russia’s largest search engine asked the European Commission in April to investigate what it says are Google’s anti-competitive practices. The EU probe also involves similar complaints by the Microsoft Corp.-backed FairSearch lobby group, ad blocker Disconnect and independent applications-store Aptoide, according to Amsterdam-based Yandex.