The EU's top court upheld Thursday a record €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) fine the bloc slapped on Google for anti-competitive practices related to its Android operating system. The European Court of Justice dismissed the US tech giant's second attempt to overturn the penalty imposed by the European Commission in 2018 – which remains the EU's highest ever antitrust fine. "The Court of Justice dismisses the appeal brought by Google and Alphabet... thereby confirming the penalty imposed on them," the court said. Alphabet, Google's parent company, was found jointly liable for part of the levy. The commission, the 27-nation bloc's antitrust regulator, had accused Google of abusing the popularity of its Android operating system to restrict competition. It alleged Google pressured phone makers using Android to pre-install its search engine and Google Chrome browser – essentially shutting out rivals – and ordered it to pay a €4.3 billion fine. Read moreEU fines Google a record €4.34 billion in Android case The findings were upheld in 2022 by the General Court, the EU's second-highest. But the Luxembourg-based body slightly reduced the levy to €4.1 billion – still the EU's biggest ever. Google filed a new challenge arguing before the bloc's top court, the European Court of Justice, that the case was unfounded and that the sanction penalised innovation.