A European Union antitrust crackdown on big technology firms is “definitely not done yet,” EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager told Bloomberg TV, citing probes into Amazon.com Inc. and Google.
“We have a probe into the Amazon use of data because they both host a lot of businesses but they also compete against those businesses themselves. We want to figure out if this a fair use of data,” she said in an interview. On Google, “we’re still looking into the question” of searches for jobs and local services.
Vestager shut down her last big Google case in March with a 1.49 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine that helped to pull down owner Alphabet’s earnings. She’s fined the US giant 8.2 billion euros and demanded changes over how it displays rival shopping search results and how it distributes its apps for Android mobile phones. Google risks more fines if it doesn’t make changes that trigger more competition.
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