EU Court of Justice upholds €4.1 billion Google Android antitrust fine, dismissing final appeal

Europe's top court on Thursday dismissed Alphabet's Google appeal against a record European Union antitrust fine tied to its Android mobile operating system, upholding a penalty of 4.1 billion euros. The Court of Justice of the European Union sided with the bloc's antitrust enforcer. Judges confirmed the General Court's 2022 ruling that reduced the original 4.34 billion euro fine imposed by the European Commission in 2018 to 4.1 billion euros. "The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search's abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system," the court said. The ruling ends an eight-year legal fight after the fine was imposed in 2018. Google has no further right to appeal the decision that found the company used Android agreements to shut out competitors.