Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The European Commission on Friday fined Google $3.455 billion for violating the European Union's anti-competitive practices in advertising technology.
Earlier this week, a U.S. federal judge ordered the U.S.-headquartered company to hand over its search results and some data to rival companies. The Justice Department challenged Google's dominance in online search. But Google avoided having to sell off its Chrome browser or Android operating system.
The DOJ also is suing Google in another advertising case with the trial set to start later this month.
The European Commission, which represents 27 nations, said it fined Google "for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry ('adtech'). It did so by favoring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competing providers of advertising technology services, advertisers and online publishers," according to a news release.
Google has 60 days how it intends to "bring these self-preferencing practices to an end and to implement measures to cease its inherent conflicts of interest along the adtech supply chain."
