Security News > 2022 > September > Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly
Indonesia's competition regulator, the Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha has alleged that Google has violated local anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position for the distribution of apps and its requirement that developers must use its payment systems.
Google therefore has a lot to lose if it is found to have abused its monopoly.
Google is reportedly soliciting bids for the assembly of its Pixel phone from manufacturers in India, as it looks to move operations out of China.
China Mobile last week commenced a countdown to quit the New York Stock Exchange.
A regulatory filing revealed that the company intends to file paperwork to quit the exchange - an action it flagged in May 2021 as a result of US actions to delist it along with peers China Telecom and China Unicom.
A think tank chaired by former Google boss Eric Schmidt warned the rest of the decade will be imperative to the US and China's battle for global technology leadership.