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Comment: EU’s Android win strengthens Big Tech crackdown but leaves dents on procedure

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst ( September 14, 2022, 14:42 GMT | Insight) -- Margrethe Vestager’s EU antitrust enforcers today chalked up a significant court victory, after judges largely upheld a record antitrust fine on Google over its Android operating system for mobile phones. It will embolden further enforcement and set in stone a view of Google’s power over tech markets. But regulators fell short of a perfect scorecard, and a few setbacks may complicate probes in the years to come.Google’s failure to overturn an EU antitrust fine of more than 4 billion euros (more than $4 billion) represents a major legal and symbolic victory for the bloc’s regulators, just as they take on new powers to clamp down on Big Tech....

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