Google loses combat against log €4.1 billion EU antitrust fine
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Alphabet's Google on Thursday lost its combat against a log fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators eight years ago for using its Android mobile
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Google loses combat against log €4.1 billion EU antitrust fine
Alphabet's Google on Thursday lost its combat against a log fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators eight years ago for using its Android mobile operating framework to bar rivals, a tribunal ruling likely to raise Europe's crackdown on Major Tech.
The European Commission had originally handed out a €4.34 billion fine to Google in 2018 for its agreements, which forced phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Query, the Chrome navigator and the Google Play app store on their Android devices and prevented them from using rival Android systems.
A lower tribunal subsequently trimmed the fine to €4.1 billion in 2022 after the world's most popular query core challenged the EU penalty. Google then appealed to the Luxembourg-based Tribunal of Fairness of the European Union, Europe's highest.
The tribunal sided with the EU antitrust enforcer.
"The petition brought by Google and its parent firm Alphabet against the judgment of the General Tribunal is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Query's abuse of a dominant placement in the setting of the Android operating framework," judges said.
A Google spokesperson said that the judgment failed to grab into log its stake to secure Android remains unlock, interoperable and free.
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