The American tech giant has been ordered to pay €1.7 billion to Swedish firm Klarna for favoring its own price comparison service. This marks the latest episode in a series of sanctions against Google in Europe for abuse of dominant market position, writes Le Monde columnist Isabelle Chaperon.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Oh. I thought “Europe” meant European governments and similar institutions.

        Still very bad.

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          9 hours ago

          I meant Europe as a region, as defined by Microsoft’s internal division.

          But yeah, also governments are paying crazy money for that. And that ARE taxpayers money… 😐