Top EU court upholds Google Android fine in landmark antitrust case – POLITICO

BRUSSELS — Europe’s top court on Thursday dismissed Google’s appeal against a €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine, handing the European Commission a major victory in one of its longest-running antitrust battles with Big Tech.

The Court of Justice of the European Union upheld a lower court’s 2022 judgment, which largely backed the Commission’s finding that Google abused its dominant position by imposing restrictions on makers of smartphones that use its Android operating system and mobile network operators to protect the dominance of Google Search and Chrome.

The General Court reduced the original €4.34 billion penalty to €4.125 billion, a fine that now stands.