{"id":940142,"date":"2025-06-20T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940142"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:56:57","slug":"google-faces-setback-as-eu-court-adviser-backs-antitrust-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/20\/google-faces-setback-as-eu-court-adviser-backs-antitrust-regulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Google faces setback as EU court adviser backs antitrust regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels: Alphabet&#8217;s Google faced a potential setback on Thursday as an adviser to Europe&#8217;s highest court sided with EU antitrust regulators in the company&#8217;s fight against a record 4.34 billion euro ($4.98 billion) fine levied seven years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its Android mobile operating system to block rivals. A lower tribunal endorsed the EU finding in 2022 but trimmed the fine to 4.1 billion euros, prompting Google to appeal to Europe&#8217;s top court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels: Alphabet&#8217;s Google faced a potential setback on Thursday as an adviser to Europe&#8217;s highest court sided with EU antitrust regulators in the company&#8217;s fight against a record 4.34 billion euro ($4.98 billion) fine levied seven years ago. The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its Android mobile operating system to block rivals. A lower tribunal endorsed the EU finding in 2022 but trimmed the fine to 4.1 billion euros, prompting Google to appeal to Europe&#8217;s top court.<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940142","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=940142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}