{"id":1023348,"date":"2026-07-24T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023348"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:39:11","slug":"google-hit-with-1-billion-eu-fine-over-search-play-store-breaches-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/google-hit-with-1-billion-eu-fine-over-search-play-store-breaches-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hit with $1 billion EU fine over search, play store breaches \u2014 here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google was fined a total of \u20ac890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for violating the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets Act, in a decision that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said Thursday that Google had unfairly favored its own search services and prevented app developers from steering consumers to offers outside its Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google was fined a total of \u20ac890 million ($1 billion) by the European Union for violating the bloc\u2019s Digital Markets Act, in a decision that risks further inflaming tensions with US President Donald Trump. The European Commission said Thursday that Google had unfairly favored its own search services and prevented app developers from steering consumers to offers outside its Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023348","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023349,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023348\/revisions\/1023349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}