Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); In US dollars, the fines total $1.013 billion – or one quarter of one percent of the $402 billion in revenue that Google’s parent company Alphabet won in its last full financial year. The Big G’s net income was $132 billion in the same year, making these fines less than one percent of its profits. The EU’s regulatory authorities felt Google didn’t meet that obligation.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); In US dollars, the fines total $1.013 billion – or one quarter of one percent of the $402 billion in revenue that Google’s parent company Alp
- ▪The Big G’s net income was $132 billion in the same year, making these fines less than one percent of its profits.
- ▪The EU’s regulatory authorities felt Google didn’t meet that obligation.
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