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Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

giuliomagnifico · 89 points · 61 comments · 3 hours ago

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WarmWash23 minutes ago

People aren't going to like this, but taking a page from Apple, Microsoft, Sony (iPhone, Xbox, Playstation), the solution to constant antitrust charges stemming from competitors on your platform....is to kick them off the platform. You can't be anti-competitive if you have no competitors.

tjwebbnorfolk5 minutes ago

Klarna is a buy-now-pay-later company, right? How do they compete with google?

zelias55 minutes ago

Wondering if Google can take out a BNPL plan to cover the damages

Hikikomori1 hour ago

This comes years after this fine was upheld about Google shopping in an EU court. I guess prisjakt (another Swedish website that works just like pricerunner) could do the same now. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/27/google-brac... Klarna bought pricerunner for just under a billion 5 years ago, pretty good deal.

buggeryorkshire1 hour ago

Didn't Google have a previous lawsuit against foundem? Not a fan of Google but foundem were fucking awful.