Google fined for unfairly competing with rival app store – TechRadar
Google has been hit with a $32 million fine for anticompetitive practices in South Korea, the company’s watchdog announced in a press release earlier today.
As per a (rough) translation of the announcement posted by the South Korean Fair Trade Commission, Google broke the law by forcing mobile game development companies to publish their work exclusively on the Play Store.
“The Fair Trade Commission… has decided to impose a fine of KRW 42.1 billion (provisional) along with a corrective order for Google’s actions that hindered competition in the App Market market by preventing mobile game companies from launching competing App Market (One Store) games,” the translation of the announcement reads.
Local competition
According to The Register, OneStore is an app store that launched in 2016 by a merger of app stores belonging to the top three local telcos, and an internet search company called Naver – allegedly the most popular search engine in the country.
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