{"id":20447,"date":"2011-04-01T13:04:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20447"},"modified":"2011-04-01T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T17:04:53","slug":"google-tightens-grip-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/04\/01\/google-tightens-grip-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Google tightens grip on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google (GOOG) is tightening its grip on its Android software, and Google&#8217;s partners are said to be upset. The company&#8217;s agreements with Android partners are said to be more &#8220;onerous&#8221; now and reportedly include &#8220;non-fragmentation clauses&#8221; that give Google video power over tweaks others want to make to Android. Additionally, sources say Google has &#8220;tried to hold up&#8221; some Verizon (VZ, VOD) Android devices that use Microsoft (MSFT) Bing as its search engine. Some companies have complained to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google (GOOG) is tightening its grip on its Android software, and Google&#8217;s partners are said to be upset. The company&#8217;s agreements with Android partners are said to be more &#8220;onerous&#8221; now and reportedly include<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}