{"id":1024334,"date":"2026-07-29T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024334"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:21:29","slug":"google-rivals-line-up-seeking-damages-after-record-1-billion-fine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/google-rivals-line-up-seeking-damages-after-record-1-billion-fine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google rivals line up seeking damages after record $1 billion fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: A decades-long crackdown on Google&#8217;s business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case brought against it under new EU legislation opens the door to a wave of private lawsuits demanding up to $10 billion in damages. <\/p>\n<p>Having already absorbed billions of dollars in EU fines since 2017, Alphabet&#8217;s search giant is now facing lawsuits from smaller rivals across Europe, according to half a dozen lawyers and litigation financiers, and a tally of cases filed in half a dozen countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS: A decades-long crackdown on Google&#8217;s business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case brought against it under new EU legislation opens the door to a wave of private lawsuits demanding up to $10 billion in damages. Having already absorbed billions of dollars in EU fines since 2017, Alphabet&#8217;s search giant is now facing lawsuits from smaller rivals across Europe, according to half a dozen lawyers and litigation financiers, and a tally of cases filed in half a dozen countries.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024334","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=1024334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024335,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024334\/revisions\/1024335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}