The record fine issued to Google by the European Union’s antitrust enforcers in 2018 concerned its Android mobile operating system.
One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld the bloc’s biggest-ever antitrust fine, issued to Google by the EU’s competition enforcers in 2018 over its Android mobile operating system.
The European Court of Justice’s General Court on Wednesday mostly confirmed a decision by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, toThe court said that “in order better to reflect the gravity and duration of the infringement,” it’s appropriate to give Google a fine of 4.125 billion euros, according to a press summary of the decision. That’s slightly lower than the original 4.34-billion-euro penalty, and the court said its reasoning differed “in certain respects” from the commission’s.
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