LUXEMBOURG—Alphabet subsidiary Google lost an appeal to a 2.42 billion euro ($2.8 billion) European antitrust decision on Nov. 10, a major win for the bloc’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager in the first of three court rulings that could strengthen the EU’s push to regulate Big Tech. Vestager sanctioned the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 for favoring its own price-comparison shopping service, giving itself an unfair advantage against its smaller European rivals. The shopping case was the first of a trio of decisions that has seen Google rack up a total of 8.25 billion euros in EU antitrust fines over the past decade. The company could face yet more defeats in the appeal of two other cases, which involve its Android mobile operating system and AdSense advertising service. The EU is seen to have stronger arguments in both cases. The court ruling will strengthen Vestager’s hand in her …
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