Google’s Monopoly Challenged: EU Fines Tech Giant

It is adding to Google’s woes, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority recently hit the company with more accusations, that it used its leading position to unjustly limit rivals’ access to important advertising, the effect of which could unlawfully distort fair competition for UK businesses, which collectively spend billions every year on online ads. Read more

Although it made changes in practices, such as auctions for shopping ads, this week the appeal from Google regarding the fine was rejected. There are other similar penalties that the company still has under appeal, like the record 4.125 billion euro fine regarding Android and another fine of 1.49 billion euros for AdSense.