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Don’t Expect Big Changes from Europe’s Record Google Fine

Don’t Expect Big Changes from Europe’s Record Google Fine

Don’t Expect Big Changes from Europe’s Record Google Fine

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

July 19, 20186m 41s

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European regulators took a big swing at Google Wednesday for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system, fining the company €4.34 billion ($5 billion) and ordering changes to Android designed to put Google rivals on a more level playing field. But it’s not clear that the fine or the operational changes will have much effect. “Google has basically won,” says Maurice Stucke, co-founder of The Konkurrenz Group and a law professor at the University of Tennessee.

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