Google has appealed a $5 billion Android fine from the EU

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as informed in On Tuesday, Google filed an appeal of the European Commission's nearly $5 billion fine after a regulatory body decided that the Alphabet Inc. company was knowingly assaulting antitrust laws, the company confirmed to The Verge. In its initial suit, the European Commission alleged that Google was abusing its market dominance over its Android operating system by bundling together products like Google search and Chrome apps, and paying other mobile manufacturers to include Google search as a default. The initial decision gave Google 90 days to end the anti-competitive behaviors in order to continue offering the Google Play Store on devices. It's the 2nd major fine the company has faced from the EU's antitrust body. Google faced a $2.7 billion fine from the commission as a response to that behavior.

Google appeals record 4.3 billion euro EU fine over Android

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Google appeals EU's $5 billion Android antitrust fine

as informed in Google on Tuesday said it filed an appeal of the European Union's €4.34 billion ($4.97 billion) antitrust fine for allegedly abusing the dominance of its Android operating system for mobile phones. But Google said it has no plans to ask for so-called interim measures to pause application of the decision. Alphabet Inc.'s GOOGL, -0.93% GOOG, -0.88% Google had promised that it would appeal the decision the time the European Commission, the bloc's antitrust regulator, delivered it in mid-July. A spokesman for Google declined to make the appeal public or comment on what grounds the company cited in its defense. Instead the company referred to a blog post it published in July, following the EU's decision, arguing that Android has boosted competition among mobile phone makers.