Google loses final EU court appeal against 2.4 billion Euro fine in antitrust shopping case

London: Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union (EU) penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine. The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a lower court’s decision, rejecting the company’s appeal against the 2.4 billion Euro (USD 2.7 billion) penalty from the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer.