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.

    • kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world
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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… 😐