BRUSSELS: EU antitrust regulators hit Google with a record €2.4bil (US$2.7bil or RM11.70bil) fine for favouring its own shopping service, taking a tough line in the first of three probes of its dominance in searches and smartphone operating systems.
It is the biggest fine the European Commission has ever imposed on a single company in an antitrust case, exceeding a €1.06bil (RM5.16bil) sanction handed down against US chipmaker Intel in 2009 and goes far beyond what US regulators have ever fined a tech company.
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