The European Court of Justice, the EU's top court, has confirmed an antitrust fine for Google worth €4.125 billion ($4.7 billion) for abusing the dominant position of its Android operating system.
The judges at the court in Luxembourg dismissed an appeal by the US tech giant on Thursday, bringing a lengthy legal saga to an end.
The European Commission, which acts as the EU’s competition authority, imposed the record fine on Google back in 2018, after which the case went through all available legal instances.
The commission argued Google had illegally reinforced its dominance by offering Google Search to mobile phone manufacturers only as a bundle with other Google apps, paying them for pre-installing Google Search as the only search app, and obstructing the development of competing apps.
