Google said on Monday that Russia's anti-monopoly watchdog had granted its request to extend a Nov. 18 deadline for the company to comply with a ruling to amend its contracts with smartphone producers. The watchdog ruled in September that the software group had broken the law by requiring pre-installation of its search application on mobile devices running on its Android operating system. Google has been granted a one-month extension and now has until Dec. 18 to comply, a Google spokeswoman based in Moscow said.



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