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PriceRunner Sues Google for 2.1 Billion Euros Alleging Unfair Competition

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Shai Oster
· · Source: Reuters

Swedish price-comparison firm PriceRunner is suing Google for 2.1 billion euros, alleging the company owned by Alphabet unfairly manipulated search results to favor its own services, Reuters reported. Google lost an appeal against a 2.42 billion euro fine in 2017 for similar allegations. “They are still abusing the market to a very high extent and haven’t changed basically anything,”...

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