{"id":959699,"date":"2025-09-06T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T03:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959699"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:25:01","slug":"google-hit-with-3-5-billion-fine-from-european-union-in-ad-tech-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/06\/google-hit-with-3-5-billion-fine-from-european-union-in-ad-tech-antitrust-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a \u20ac2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc\u2019s competition rules by favouring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company. <\/p>\n<p>The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc\u2019s executive branch and top antitrust enforcer, also ordered the US tech giant to end its \u201cself-preferencing practices\u201d and take steps to stop \u201cconflicts of interest\u201d along the advertising technology supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a \u20ac2.95 billion ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc\u2019s competition rules by favouring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc\u2019s executive branch and top antitrust enforcer, also ordered the US tech giant to end its \u201cself-preferencing practices\u201d and take steps to stop \u201cconflicts of interest\u201d along the advertising technology supply chain.<\/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-959699","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\/959699","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=959699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}