Europe's top court upholds Google's 4.1 billion euro fine over Android practices
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- Europe's top court, the ECJ, has upheld Google's 4.1 billion euro fine for anti-competitive practices related to its Android operating system.
- The fine, initially imposed by the European Commission in 2018, was for abusing Android's dominance to favor Google's own apps.
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In 2018, the European Commission fined Google 4.34 billion euros for abusing Android's mobile dominance. A lower EU court later reduced this to 4.1 billion euros.
Europe's top court on Thursday upheld Google 's fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices.
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android's mobile dominance to give unfair advantage to its own apps via pre-installation deals with smartphone makers.
Google has been appealing the ruling through the EU court system. But the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe's top court, dismissed Google's appeal.
"The Court of Justice dismisses the appeal brought by Google and Alphabet against that judgment of the General Court, thereby confirming the penalty imposed on them, as revised by the General Court, for their anticompetitive practices relating to the Android operating system," the ECJ said in a press release.
CNBC has reached out to Google for comment.
In 2022, a lower EU court reduced the fine to the current 4.1 billion euros from 4.34 billion euros previously.
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- Will Google change its Android practices?
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