After EU, Google faces painful reckoning in US as antitrust cases rev up

Google’s antitrust problems are coming home to roost.

While the company has beat back European antitrust interventions by paying 6.5 billion euros ($7.1 billion), US enforcers are now flexing their muscles — and the most painful part for the Alphabet Inc. unit won’t be monetary fines, but blows to core businesses that bring in big revenue.