SMEs to gain from new EU regulation

Brussels wants to enforce rules designed to control the dominance of a few online giants, but Europe’s in this area is poor and we may have to wait for US authorities to act, says John Whelan.

Almost a year after the European Commission fined Google €2.42bn for abusing its dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to Google’s own comparison shopping service, the commission slammed the company with an even bigger fine of €4.3bn for abusing its dominant position in the market with its Android operating system.