Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks when a top European court fined it $4.13 billion for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals.
Google\n \n suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure. The unit of US tech giant Alphabet had challenged an earlier ruling, but the decision was broadly upheld by the Europe’s second-highest court in Wednesday’s ruling and the fine was reduced only modestly from 4.34 billion euros .
Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world,” a spokesperson said. Antitrust boost The ruling is a boost for EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager following setbacks in cases involving other tech giants such as Intel\n \n and Qualcomm\n \n this year.
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