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Google Acts to End One Fight in Europe as Bigger Antitrust Battle Looms

Google’s settlement with the European commission may help the giant focus on defending its Android software against antitrust cases.
Google’s settlement with the European commission may help the giant focus on defending its Android software against antitrust cases.
Google’s settlement with the European commission may help the giant focus on defending its Android software against antitrust cases.Credit...Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press

By Robert Cyran

  • Sept. 28, 2017

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has cleared the deck for a huge antitrust fight. The technology giant is separating its European shopping unit and allowing rivals to bid for ads. That frees Google up to battle European regulators over claims that the company uses its Android operating system to dominate online search.

The European Commission fined Google $2.7 billion this summer after determining that the company had acted abusively in promoting its online shopping service over those of others. The regulator also added the prospect of a fine of 5 percent of Google’s daily revenue each day if the company did not fix the problem by Thursday.

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