{"id":856976,"date":"2024-09-18T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=856976"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:59:34","slug":"google-wins-legal-bid-to-overturn-1-5-billion-euro-antitrust-fine-in-european-union-digital-advertising-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/18\/google-wins-legal-bid-to-overturn-1-5-billion-euro-antitrust-fine-in-european-union-digital-advertising-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Google wins legal bid to overturn 1.5 billion euro antitrust fine in European Union digital advertising case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google won a court challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business. <\/p>\n<p>The European Union&#8217;s General Court said it was throwing out the 2019 penalty imposed by the European Commission, which is the 27-nation bloc&#8217;s top antitrust enforcer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe General Court annuls the Commission&#8217;s decision in its entirety,\u201d it said in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>The commission&#8217;s ruling applied to a narrow portion of Google&#8217;s ad business: ads that the US tech giant sold next to Google search results on third-party websites. <\/p>\n<p>Regulators had found that Google inserted exclusivity clauses in its contracts that barred these websites from running similarly placed ads sold by Google&#8217;s rivals. <\/p>\n<p>The commission, the bloc&#8217;s top antitrust enforcer, said when it issued the penalty that Google&#8217;s behaviour resulted in advertisers and website owners having less choice and likely facing higher prices that would be passed on to consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google won a court challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business. The European Union&#8217;s General Court said it was throwing out the 2019 penalty imposed by the European Commission, which is the 27-nation bloc&#8217;s top antitrust enforcer. \u201cThe General Court annuls the Commission&#8217;s decision in its entirety,\u201d it said in a press release. The commission&#8217;s ruling applied to a narrow portion of Google&#8217;s ad business: ads that the US tech giant sold next to Google search results on third-party websites. Regulators had found that Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856976","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=856976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}