Nothing says 'we're serious about antitrust' like a fine smaller than Google's daily Chipotle budget.

Google slapped with $1 billion fine under landmark EU digital law

European regulators fined Google $1 billion under the Digital Markets Act, alleging it gives preferential treatment to its own services in search results. The fine is the first major penalty under the bloc's new tech competition regime, but amounts to roughly two days of Google's ad revenue—a sum critics call a rounding error for the company.

Source: Google slapped with $1 billion fine under landmark EU digital law — CNBC

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