Google faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing' its ad exchange
GOOGAlphabet(GOOG) TechCrunch·2024-09-06 18:41

More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses. The tech giant will now have a chance to respond to the provisional findings before the regulator reaches a final decision.Confirmed violations of U.K. competition law can lead to corrective orders and fines of up to 10% of annual worldwide group turnover. So the outcome of this case is likely to be closely watched. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has be ...