Google told to pay up in anti-trust row

Stefan Mileschin · 11th November 2021, 07:03

$2.8 billion fine was legal according to Europe’s second highest court

Europe's second-highest court dismissed Google’s challenge to an EU antitrust ruling and $2.8 billion fine in a major win for EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager.

Vestager sanctioned the world's most popular internet search engine in 2017 for favouring its own price-comparison shopping service to give it an unfair advantage against smaller European rivals.

The shopping case was the first of a trio of decisions that have seen Google rack up a total of 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines in the last decade. Vestager subsequently took on Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, where investigations are still ongoing.

"The General Court largely dismisses Google's action against the decision of the Commission finding that Google abused its dominant position by favouring its own comparison-shopping service over competing comparison shopping services," the Court said.

https://fudzilla.com/news/53854-goog...anti-trust-row

11th November 2021, 07:03	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,802	Google told to pay up in anti-trust row $2.8 billion fine was legal according to Europe’s second highest court Europe's second-highest court dismissed Google’s challenge to an EU antitrust ruling and $2.8 billion fine in a major win for EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager. Vestager sanctioned the world's most popular internet search engine in 2017 for favouring its own price-comparison shopping service to give it an unfair advantage against smaller European rivals. The shopping case was the first of a trio of decisions that have seen Google rack up a total of 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines in the last decade. Vestager subsequently took on Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, where investigations are still ongoing. "The General Court largely dismisses Google's action against the decision of the Commission finding that Google abused its dominant position by favouring its own comparison-shopping service over competing comparison shopping services," the Court said. https://fudzilla.com/news/53854-goog...anti-trust-row

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