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Google loses final EU court appeal against 2.4 billion euro fine in antitrust shopping case
3 months, 1 week ago

Google loses final EU court appeal against 2.4 billion euro fine in antitrust shopping case

Associated Press  

LONDON — Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine. The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a lower court’s decision, rejecting the company’s appeal against the 2.4 billion euro …

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DC Edit | Google fine: Caveat for Big Tech
4 months, 2 weeks ago

DC Edit | Google fine: Caveat for Big Tech

Deccan Chronicle  

After a six-year-long antitrust lawsuit against Google, a US court declared that Alphabet, Google’s owner, has illegally monopolised the search market through exclusive deals with mobile handset makers. Judge Amit Mehta, who delivered this verdict, said Alphabet paid $26 billion to make its search engine the default option on smartphones and web browsers, and effectively blocked any other competitor from …

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Google in last ditch effort to overturn $2.6 bln EU antitrust fine
1 year, 3 months ago

Google in last ditch effort to overturn $2.6 bln EU antitrust fine

The Hindu  

Alphabet's Google on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort at Europe's top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro EU antitrust fine imposed for market abuse related to its shopping service, saying that regulators failed to show that its practices were anti-competitive. Google lawyer Thomas Graf said the European Commission had failed to show that the company's different treatment of rivals …

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Competition Commission slaps Rs 1,337.76 crore fine on Google for 'unfair business practices'
2 years, 2 months ago

Competition Commission slaps Rs 1,337.76 crore fine on Google for 'unfair business practices'

India Today  

The Competition Commission of India on Thursday imposed a penalty of Rs 1337.76 crore on Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in the android mobile device ecosystem, apart from issuing cease and desist order. The commission examined various practices of Google with respect to licensing of this Android mobile operating system and various proprietary mobile applications of …

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Google urges court to scrap $1.6 billion EU antitrust fine
2 years, 7 months ago

Google urges court to scrap $1.6 billion EU antitrust fine

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe's second-highest court to dismiss a 1.49-billion-euro fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators three years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising. The European Commission in its 2019 decision said Google had abused its dominance to stop websites using brokers other than its AdSense platform which provided search adverts. The EU competition enforcer's …

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Today's Cache | Google appeals against a $5 bln fine
3 years, 2 months ago

Today's Cache | Google appeals against a $5 bln fine

The Hindu  

Google is appealing against a record fine by the EU watchdog. Thesearch giant says it is pro-competition Three years ago, EU’s competition watchdog fined Google for breaching the bloc’s antitrust rules. It also noted that Google paid certain handset manufacturers to exclusively pre-install its apps, and prevented others from pre-installing its app via alternative versions of Android. Europe’s top regulator …

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