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The European Union is likely to be able to crack down on big tech after a court ruled in favor of the bloc.
The European Commissioner for Competition is holding a press conference.
The European Court of Justice's General Court upheld the EU executive commission's decision to penalize Google, but only slightly reduced the fine from 4.34 billion to 4.125 billion.
The ruling states that in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine, the company imposed illegal restrictions on the makers of theANDROID phones.
The ruling of the court is in line with the European Commission's ruling that tech giant forced device manufacturers to agree to pre install and not use unlicensed versions of the operating system.
The 4.125 billion fine is part of a larger set of antitrust penalties that also includes a 2.42 billion fine for favoring its own shopping services on its search engine.
It is not clear if the appeal will be moved to the EU Court of Justice.
The court's ruling was the subject of a request from Forbes.
The European Commission is likely to expand its scrutiny of the dominance of US tech giants after Wednesday's ruling. Apple is being investigated by the commission for abuse of its dominance in the music streaming space. The commission is looking into possible antitrust abuse by Meta in the online advertising business, as well as by Amazon in the e- commerce business. The Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act were passed by the European Parliament earlier this year.
The Financial Times reported that the search engine giant lost its appeal against the EU antitrust fine.
The EU antitrust decision was the subject of a challenge by the internet giant.
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