Google must pay $1.5bn in antitrust damages to PriceRunner, Swedish court says
( July 1, 2026, 11:57 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Google must pay the equivalent of about 14.3 billion Swedish krona ($1.5 billion) in damages to price comparison service PriceRunner, a Swedish court has said. PriceRunner was considered to have suffered damage as a result of Google having for many years illegally favored its own price comparison service, the court said in a statement. The ruling follows the European Commission's 2017 decision in the so-called Google Shopping case that Google abused its dominant position by placing and presenting its own price comparison service in a more advantageous manner than its competitors' on its general search results page.Press release follows, and ruling is attached (both in Swedish)....
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