EU competition chief holds threat of breaking up Google
▻https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/03/25/eu-competition-chief-keeps-threat-breaking-google-table
The European Union harbours “grave suspicions” about the dominance of Google and has not ruled out breaking it up, the bloc’s competition commissioner has warned. Margrethe Vestager told The Telegraph that the threat to split the internet giant up into smaller companies must be kept open. In June last year, the Danish commissioner hit Google with a record £2.1 billion fine – which the firm is appealing against – for giving its own comparison shopping service an illegal advantage in search (...)