India has fined American software giant Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, after authorities in Delhi closed their second antitrust investigation against the company this month, Reuters reported.

Google has been fined 9.36 billion Indian rupees ($113.04 million) as an investigation found the company abused its market position to promote its payments app.  

On Friday, October 21, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled that Google had configured its platform in such a way as to illegally remove competitors from its applications such as YouTube and Chrome.

Also, the operating system "Android" (Android), developed by "Google", is equipped with a series of applications of the same company, which are pre-installed on the phones, among them the own search engine.

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This gives Google's search services a significant competitive advantage over its rivals, India's antitrust authority said.

As a result, the commission fined Google 13.4 billion rupees ($162 million).

The Android operating system dominates India's mobile market, powering 95 percent of all smartphones in the country, according to data from research agency Counterpoint, cited by 

After China, the Indian market is the world's second largest smartphone market. 

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