EU hits Google with new €1.49bn fine

Google was fined €1.49bn by the EU for thwarting advertising rivals, a penalty that may be EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager’s third and final ruling on the US tech giant.

It brings the total Google has been ordered to pay to €8.2bn in EU competition probes that have run for nearly a decade and taken aim at the company’s popular software for Android phones and searches related to shopping.