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EU vs. Android

Posted on 19. April 2016 Written by Marcel Weiss

Venturebeat/Reuters:

The European competition commission is gearing up to charge Google with giving unfair prominence to its own apps like search and maps in supplementary software licensing deals it strikes with mobile phone makers running its Android operating system, four sources familiar with the process said on Monday.

Charles Arthur:

Very like the search charges (which were filed a year ago, and absolutely nothing has happened). Except that 1) Google really did manipulate search results to keep out rivals 2) phonemakers have always been able to use AOSP and then fill it in with apps – as happened with the Nokia X. I don’t think the Android case is as strong as the search case.

AOSP is the Android Open Source Project, the open source aquivalent to Google’s Android, lacking all Google apps and services. Amazon’s Fire OS and CyanogenMod are based on AOSP, for example. AOSP (in several different flavors) is especially strong in China, thanks to Google’s services not being available there.

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“From Spotify To Shazam: The 16 European Unicorns Ranked By Valuation”

Posted on 28. September 2015 Written by Marcel Weiss

CBInsights:

The European unicorns have an aggregate valuation of more than $34B. Almost one-third of them are fin tech companies.

Nr. 1 is Spotify with a valuation of 8.5 Billion $. The next three all come from Rocket Internet: Global Fashion Group with 3.4 Billion $, Delivery Hero with 3.1 Billion $ and HelloFresh with 2.9 Billion $.

There are now 138 ‘unicorns’ globally and they just crossed the 1/2 a trillion dollar mark, at least on paper.

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