{"id":799152,"date":"2021-11-11T10:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/11\/11\/google-loses-court-challenge-against-eu-antitrust-ruling\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:06:04","slug":"google-loses-court-challenge-against-eu-antitrust-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/11\/11\/google-loses-court-challenge-against-eu-antitrust-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Google loses court challenge against EU antitrust ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet unit Google suffered a setback on Wednesday after Europe&#8217;s second-highest court dismissed its challenge to an EU antitrust ruling and 2.42 billion euro ($2.8 billion) fine in a major win for EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager.<\/p>\n<p>Vestager sanctioned the world&#8217;s most popular internet search engine in 2017 for favouring its own price-comparison shopping service to give it an unfair advantage against smaller European rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The shopping case was the first of a trio of decisions that have seen Google rack up a total of 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines in the last decade. Vestager subsequently took on Amazon, Apple and Facebook, where investigations are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The General Court largely dismisses Google&#8217;s action against the decision of the Commission finding that Google abused its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service over competing comparison shopping services,&#8221; the Court said.<\/p>\n<p>Google can appeal to the EU Court of Justice (CJEU), Europe&#8217;s top court, on points of law.<\/p>\n<p>The case is T-612\/17 Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Shopping).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet unit Google suffered a setback on Wednesday after Europe&#8217;s second-highest court dismissed its challenge to an EU antitrust ruling and 2.42 billion euro ($2.8 billion) fine in a major win for EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager. Vestager sanctioned the world&#8217;s most popular internet search engine in 2017 for favouring its own price-comparison shopping service to give it an unfair advantage against smaller European rivals. The shopping case was the first of a trio of decisions that have seen Google rack up a total of 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines in the last decade. Vestager subsequently took on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799152","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}