Cyprus Mail2 Jul 2026

Google loses fight against record €4.1 billion EU antitrust fine

Alphabet’s Google on Thursday lost its fight against a record fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators eight years ago for using its Android mobile operating system to block rivals, a court ruling likely to boost Europe’s crackdown on Big 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 Search, the Chrome browser and the Google Play app store on their Android devices and...

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