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Google wins challenge against $1.7B EU competition fine
Google won a legal challenge Wednesday against a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) antitrust fine from the European Union, while chipmaker Qualcomm failed to repeal a penalty.
The rulings underscore the mixed record of outgoing EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager in defending her crackdown on Big Tech in court. Google said the case was about a narrow subset of text-only search ads placed on a limited number of publishers’ websites. The Commission imposed the fine in 2019, saying Qualcomm sold its chipsets below cost between 2009 and 2011, in a practice known as predatory pricing, to thwart British phone software maker Icera, now part of Nvidia.
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