Google defends Android phone maker deals, denies carrot and stick tactics
The Hindu
Google was addressing the second day of a week-long hearing as it tries to get Europe's second-highest court to annul 4.3-billion-euro ($5 billion) antitrust fine
Alphabet unit Google on Tuesday said deals with Android phone makers that landed it a record 4.3-billion-euro ($5 billion) antitrust fine boosted competition and rejected EU charges that they were a carrot-and-stick tactic that stifled rivals.
Google was addressing the second day of a as it tries to get Europe's second-highest court to annul the fine and a European Commission order to make it loosen its search engine grip on Android devices.
Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash
William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo from space in 1968, was killed on June 7 when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.