Google Stock Marginally Rises in Spite of the EU Court Maintaining the Antitrust Verdict

The decision reduced the first fine against Google to EUR4.12 billion, an achievement that had no adverse effects on the premarket trading of Google stock.

Reuters reports that the General Court of the ECJ has largely upheld a ruling by EU antitrust authorities against Alphabets Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) division. Google failed in its attempt to overturn an approximately EUR4.34 billion fine imposed by the EU executive commission in 2018 after it was discovered that it had abused its market dominance. However, the court did reduce the penalties by 5% since it disagreed with the regulators determination on one point.

The court ruled that Google did place unlawful limitations on Android mobile phone manufacturers and network operators in order to increase the search engines market dominance. It noted that some of its reasoning differs in certain instances from that of the commission and decreased the penalties by 5% to EUR4.125 billion.

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The court ruled that a fine of 4.125 billion euros should be imposed on Google in order better to reflect the magnitude and duration of the infringement. Thats a little less than the original 4.34 billion euro fine, and the court claimed that their justification was different in certain ways from that of the commission. Massive fines have been levied by the EU antitrust regulator against tech behemoths like Google, Intel, and Qualcomm.

Googles response, Google stock optimism

We are unhappy that the court did not completely overturn the verdict, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOG) stated in response to the courts ruling. Android has increased choice for everyone, not decreased it, and supports thousands of globally and locally successful enterprises.

The business has argued in the past that the availability of low-cost phones made possible by the free and open-source Android operating system has increased competition between Apple and its main rival. Even more so than Apples iOS, Android is the most widely used smartphone OS. Google stock increased a little before the market opened.

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