{"id":871339,"date":"2024-10-29T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=871339"},"modified":"2024-10-29T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T03:47:03","slug":"how-this-uk-couple-took-on-google-and-cost-the-tech-giant-2-4-billion-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/29\/how-this-uk-couple-took-on-google-and-cost-the-tech-giant-2-4-billion-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"How this UK couple took on Google and cost the tech giant 2.4 billion pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK couple, Shivaun Raff and Adam, have won a 15-year-long legal battle against Google, with the tech giant ordered to pay a fine of 2.4 billion (Rs 26,171 crore) for abusing its market dominance. <\/p>\n<p>The couple, who quit their well-paying jobs launched their startup &#8216;Foundem&#8217;, which offers its price comparisons of products and charged a fee when customers click on their product listings through to other websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK couple, Shivaun Raff and Adam, have won a 15-year-long legal battle against Google, with the tech giant ordered to pay a fine of 2.4 billion (Rs 26,171 crore) for abusing its market dominance. The couple, who quit their well-paying jobs launched their startup &#8216;Foundem&#8217;, which offers its price comparisons of products and charged a fee when customers click on their product listings through to other websites.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871339","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=871339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}