Awoniyi signs long-term contract with Liverpool

Former Nigeria U23 striker Taiwo Awoniyi has signed a new long-term contract with Liverpool, the Premier League club have announced.
Awoniyi told Liverpoolfc.com: “I feel excited and I feel very happy “It has been three years since I first came to Liverpool.
So far, so good.
The last year was the best for me, it has been an amazing year so far.
“I just have to keep working hard each year and I believe one day the dream will come true.
“Thanks to my family, who have been so supportive.
I’m very glad and excited about this contract and hopefully to have an even better year.” Last season, he scored 10 goals and provided four assists on loan at Belgian club Royal Excel Mouscron.
He is now expected to play on loan again in the new season.

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Google hit with €4.3bn Android fine from EU
Google has been fined a record €4.34bn ($5bn; £3.9bn) over Android.
The European Commission said the firm had used the mobile operating system to illegally “cement its dominant position” in search.
The firm’s parent Alphabet has been given 90 days to change its business practices or face further penalties of up to 5% of its average global daily turnover.
It has said it plans to appeal.
However, it could easily afford the fine if required – its cash reserves totalled nearly $103bn at the end of March.
At a press conference in Brussels, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said consumers needed choice.
And she suggested the ruling could lead manufacturers to sell smart devices using different versions of the Android operating system to Google’s, such as Amazon’s Fire OS, which she said they had been prevented from doing.
“This will change the market place,” she said.
Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai has blogged in response.
“Rapid innovation, wide choice, and falling prices are classic hallmarks of robust competition and Android has enabled all of them,” he wrote.
“Today’s decision rejects the business model that supports Android, which has created more choice for everyone, not less.” Ms Vestager previously fined Google €2.4bn ($2.8bn; £2.1bn) over a separate probe into its shopping comparison service – a ruling the tech firm is in the process of appealing against.
In addition, her team has a third investigation underway into Google’s advert-placing business AdSense.
Ms Vestager acknowledged that Google’s version of Android does not prevent device owners downloading alternative web browsers or using other search engines.
But she said that only 1% of users downloaded a competing search app, and 10% a different browser.
“Once you have it, it is working, very few are curious enough to look for another search app or browser,” she said.

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