GOOGLE FINED $5 BILLION FOR ANTITRUST VIOLATIONS.

In July, Google was fined a record [euro]4.34 billion ($5 billion) by European Union regulators for violating antitrust laws. According to the European Commission, Google took advantage of its dominant market position by requiring mobile device manufacturers to preinstall Google Search and the Chrome browser apps as a condition for licensing its Google Play app store, paying manufacturers to exclusively pre-install Google Search, and blocking them from selling devices that run alternate versions of the...

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