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Jacob Fox

Google finally wins a court case and gets out of a €1.49 billion fine over anti-competitive practices

Google headquarters is seen in Mountain View, California, United States on September 26, 2022.

In the distant world of Silicon Valley funny-money, millions are peanuts and billions are little more than chump change. Google's therefore likely to be happy about the fact that it's just had a fine overturned by a European court less because of the money and more because of the message.

The Alphabet-owned tech giant has just won its appeal against a previous European Commission (EC) court ruling and had its €1.49 billion fine overturned (via the BBC). The fine in question was ruled on by the EC back in 2019 and was levied against Google for "breaching EU antitrust rules".

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