{"id":1018644,"date":"2026-07-03T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018644"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:39:25","slug":"europes-top-court-upholds-googles-e4-1-billion-antitrust-fine-what-it-means-for-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/europes-top-court-upholds-googles-e4-1-billion-antitrust-fine-what-it-means-for-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s top court upholds Google\u2019s \u20ac4.1 billion antitrust fine: What it means for Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s highest court on Thursday upheld a \u20ac4.1 billion ($4.67 billion) antitrust fine against Google, bringing an end to one of the European Union\u2019s biggest competition cases against a technology company. The ruling confirms that Google abused the dominant position of its Android mobile operating system to strengthen its own apps and services. <\/p>\n<p>The decision is a major victory for the European Commission and comes as the EU continues its broader crackdown on Big Tech through tougher competition and digital market rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s highest court on Thursday upheld a \u20ac4.1 billion ($4.67 billion) antitrust fine against Google, bringing an end to one of the European Union\u2019s biggest competition cases against a technology company. The ruling confirms that Google abused the dominant position of its Android mobile operating system to strengthen its own apps and services. The decision is a major victory for the European Commission and comes as the EU continues its broader crackdown on Big Tech through tougher competition and digital market rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018666,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018644\/revisions\/1018666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}