Google Challenges Record EU Antitrust Fine in Court (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday September 11, 2017 @05:25AM from the fighting-back dept.

Google appealed on Monday against a record 2.4-billion-euro ($2.9 billion) EU antitrust fine, with its chances of success boosted by Intel's partial victory last week against another EU sanction. From a report: The world's most popular Internet search engine, a unit of the U.S. firm Alphabet, launched its appeal two months after it was fined by the European Commission for abusing its dominance in Europe by giving prominent placement in searches to its comparison shopping service and demoting rival offerings.

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Re:Europe trying to make money by Anonymous Coward · 2017-09-11 09:33 · Score: 2, Informative

Europe is simply trying to go after foreign companies to make money from, rather than tax their own.
The overwhelming majority of companies that have been fined in Europe are European. They may not all make the frontpage of slashdot because most aren't IT companies, but that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.