{"id":1023457,"date":"2026-07-24T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023457"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:28:34","slug":"google-hit-with-1-billion-eu-fine-in-constructive-talks-to-avoid-more-penalties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/google-hit-with-1-billion-eu-fine-in-constructive-talks-to-avoid-more-penalties-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hit with $1 billion EU fine, in \u2018constructive\u2019 talks to avoid more penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s Google was fined a total of \u20ac890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday for flouting European Union rules aimed at reining in the power of Big Tech, the European Commission said. <\/p>\n<p>However, the US tech giant is likely to avoid fresh fines as EU regulators lauded good progress in its ongoing efforts to comply with the landmark legislation. <\/p>\n<p>The fines underscored Europe\u2019s determination to prevent Big Tech companies from thwarting rivals, defying US criticism and retaliatory tariff threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s Google was fined a total of \u20ac890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday for flouting European Union rules aimed at reining in the power of Big Tech, the European Commission said. However, the US tech giant is likely to avoid fresh fines as EU regulators lauded good progress in its ongoing efforts to comply with the landmark legislation. The fines underscored Europe\u2019s determination to prevent Big Tech companies from thwarting rivals, defying US criticism and retaliatory tariff threats.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023457","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=1023457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023464,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023457\/revisions\/1023464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}