Europe fines Google $5 billion for abusing its Android dominance

Europe has hit Google with a record $5 billion fine .....»»

President Trump says ‘I told you so!’ after Europe fines Google $5 billion.....»»

Google owes its dominant market position to talent and ingenuity and shouldn’t be punished by antitrust regulators in Europe, writes Pascal Salin......»»

To create Android, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code, bu.....»»

The executive branch of the European Union is scheduled to release two sweeping legislative proposals on Tuesday that will set the stage for regulating Big Tech in Europe......»»

Google on Friday called on Europe's second-top court to throw out what it called an eye-catching 2.4 billion euros ($2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine, saying there was no factual or legal basis to the inflated amount. Emer McCarthy reports......»»

Google on Friday called on Europe's second-top court to throw out what it called an eye-catching 2.4 billion euros ($2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine, saying there was no factual or legal basis to the inflated amount......»»

Google defended its business model on Wednesday, saying that making innovative products was at its core rather than helping rivals, as it sought to overturn a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine at Europe's second-highest court......»»

Google's fight against a 2.6 billion dollar EU antitrust fine will be played out over three days from Wednesday at Europe's second-highest court. Joe Davies reports......»»

Google will on Wednesday seek to overturn the first of three hefty European Union antitrust fines at Europe's second-highest court in a landmark case that could determine how EU enforcers take on U.S. tech giants for abuse of market power......»»

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France's competition watchdog fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) on Friday for abusing its power over the treatment of advertisers, saying it applied opaque rules and changed them at will......»»

France's competition watchdog on Friday fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) for abusing its dominant market position by applying opaque and unpredictable rules on its Google Ads advertising platform......»»

REUTERS/Albert Gea France has fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) for abusing its market dominance......»»

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Google's bid to escape Oracle Corp's multi-billion dollar lawsuit accusing Google of infringing software copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world's smartphones......»»

Alphabet unit Google's proposal to create a level playing field for price comparison shopping rivals to stave off fresh fines has not led to more traffic for its competitors, Europe's antitrust chief said on Thursday......»»

Alphabet unit Google's fight against a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.64 billion) EU antitrust fine will be played out over three days in February 2020 at Europe's second-highest court, according to parties involved in the case......»»

Alphabet unit Google's fight against a record EU antitrust fine related to its Android mobile software received a boost after Europe's second-highest court allowed Android phone maker Gigaset and HMD Global Oy to intervene in the lawsuit......»»

Google is paying more than $1 billion in fines and back taxes to settle a pair of tax disputes in France, where it has faced years of investigations into whether it has properly declared all of its activity in the country......»»

Attorneys general from 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico joined together to launch a probe of Google, questioning whether the search giant is abusing its dominance in an anticompetitive manner. Conway G. Gittens reports......»»