DOMINANCE ABUSED

It is the biggest fine the EU has ever imposed on a single company in an antitrust case, exceeding a 1.06 billion euro sanction handed down to US chipmaker Intel in 2009

Google plans to contest the fine that is equivalent to 3% of Alphabet’s turnover. It is the biggest regulatory setback for the firm which settled with US enforcers in 2013 without a penalty after agreeing to change some of its search practices