Google won a court challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro ($1.66 billion) European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business. The EU's General Court said it was throwing out the 2019 penalty imposed by the European Commission, which is the 27-nation bloc's…

Alphabet unit Google successfully overturned a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) antitrust fine, imposed by the European Commission in 2019 for hindering rivals in online search advertising. 

While Google lost a massive EU court case last week seeking to overturn a €2.4 billion (A$3.93 billion) fine for abusing its monopoly power to crush rival shopping services, this week it has had better success by winning a court battle with the European Union over a smaller €1.5 billion (A$2.45 billion) fine for thwarting... Read More

Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky

Alphabet's Google scored a legal victory after the EU's General Court overturned a fine of almost 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) imposed in 2019 that alleged the search giant abused its dominant position and restricted rivals’ advertising.

European Commission is likely to appeal the ruling.

The European General Court has upheld Google's appeal against the European Commission's hefty 1.49 billion euro fine.

Google wins appeal against 1.49 billion euro antitrust fine, but loses bigger case, facing total fines of 8.25 billion euros.

An EU court on Wednesday largely upheld an antitrust fine against US chipmaking giant Qualcomm but reduced the penalty slightly to 238.7 million euros ($265 million).

The Luxembourg-based General Court mostly agreed with the European Union competition enforcer's assessments of the case, but annulled the fine

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After years of back and forth, an EU court annulled a hefty fine it was ordered to pay over how it sold advertisements. The fine was one of three major penalties the EU has leveled against the tech giant in recent years.

Judges say the European Commission made errors in assessing the search giant’s advertising contracts with publishers.

The European Union's second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) antitrust fine imposed on Google by regulators should be annulled.

Alphabet unit Google won a legal challenge today against a €1.49 billion European Union antitrust fine, while Qualcomm failed to repeal a penalty.

BRUSSELS : Alphabet unit Google won its challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro ($1.66 billion) antitrust fine imposed five years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising, a week after it lost a much bigger case.The European Commission in its 2019 decision said Google had abused it

BRUSSELS: Alphabet unit Google won its challenge on Wednesday against a €1.49 billion (US$1.66 billion) antitrust fine imposed five years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising, a week after it lost a much bigger case. The European Commission in its 2019 decision said Google had abused its

BRUSSELS :Alphabet unit Google won a legal challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro ($1.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine, while Qualcomm failed to repeal a penalty. The rulings underscore outgoing EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's mixed record in defending her crackdown on Big Tech in

Google won a court fight with the European Union over a €1.5 billion fine for thwarting competition for online ads, partly making up for last week’s crushing defeat in a separate judgment for abusing its monopoly powers.

Google has won a court challenge against a 1.49 billion euro European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business.