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[ad_1] Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is scheduled to testify Monday in the company's antitrust trial, where he will seek to rebut the US government's portrait of the search giant as a colossus wielding billions of dollars to unfairly smother competition.Pichai arrives after seven weeks of testimony that showed Alphabet Inc. pays as much as $26 billion a year for Google to be the default search engine on mobile phones, PCs and other devices. The Justice Department argues that Google knows that most people don't change their default settings even if other options are available and that the prime positioning thwarts rivals such as Microsoft Corp.'s Bing or DuckDuckGo. It also benefits Apple Inc., which earns billions of dollars for setting Google as the default on the Safari...

[ad_1] Japan's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it is investigating whether Google violated rules by asking smartphone manufacturers for preferential treatment.The Japan Fair Trade Commission probe adds to the search engine giant's other competition woes, including in the United States. The Japanese agency said Google is suspected of inappropriately seeking to have its search apps be included in devices, with their icons in specific places. Google also allegedly signed contracts with Android-device makers not to include rival search apps in their products in exchange for sharing profits generated from advertisement revenues driven from Google searches, the agency said.The commission will seek the public's input until November 22.Saiko Nakajima, head of the digital platform investigation ...

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