The European Commission announced Friday that it had issued a €2.95 billion fine, equivalent to nearly $3.5 billion, to Big Tech giant Google, stating that the company had violated European Union ...

On September 5, 2025, the European Commission imposed a EUR 2.95 billion fine on Google, concluding an ongoing major antitrust probe dating back to 2012 into abusive practices in the advertising ...

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, but the bloc’s ...

The Google logo shines above the entrance to Google's German headquarters. Christian Charisius/dpa The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Google's use of online content ...

The EU antitrust enforcer on Friday walloped US tech giant Google with a €2.95 billion fine for self-preferencing its ad exchange tool “AdX”, while dominating the market with its publisher ad server ...

Google was hit with a $3.45 billion fine by the European Union on Friday for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business, a sharp sanction against the firm that could rile up President ...

Google is no stranger to scrutiny from government bodies such as the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and the European Commission. Now it can add ...

Brussels has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Google's AI practices, targeting how the tech giant harvests publisher content. Image: Unsplash The European Commission has delivered a blow ...