Google hit with 4.3bn euro Android fine from EU

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Google is to be fined a record 4.3 billion euros ($5bn; £3.8bn) over its Android operating system, the BBC has learned.

The European Commission's action followed a three year probe into claims the firm's mobile device strategy had unfairly strengthened its dominance of search.
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However, Google may challenge the ruling.

Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager previously fined Google 2.4bn euros ($2.8bn; £2.1bn ) over a separate probe into its shopping comparison service - a ruling Google is in the process of appealing against.



Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44858238

[melm00se]

1. Sounds a lot like

the reasons behind the USA's antitrust/bundling case against Microsoft.

The EU's antitrust/anti-monopoly laws are brutal and extremely flexible when it comes too application (for example: 30 companies all doing the same thing, you have 20% market share and the rest is split up between the remaining 29. You say "we are the dominant player in the market". you can be hit with an EU anti-trust complaint).