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

giuliomagnifico · 63 points · 32 comments · há 2 horas

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Hikikomorihá 58 minutos

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.

buggeryorkshirehá 1 hora

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

raychishá 1 hora

$1.5B is significant, but the bigger question is whether this actually changes how dominant platforms rank their own services. Is this real accountability for anti-competitive behaviour, or just another cost of doing business for Big Tech? My cynicism is tell me that unfortunately it is the latter.

_el1s7há 1 hora

> PriceRunner is considered to have suffered damage as a result of Google having illegally favoured its price comparison service for many years Why would Google NOT favor it's own service at it's own product? How is that illegal?