Deals
The Story Behind Google's Secret Offer to Settle EU’s Android Probe
- Company offered to tweak Android contracts to placate EU
- Vestager says the peace offering didn’t come quickly enough
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European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager coolly hit Google with a 4.3 billion-euro ($5 billion) fine last week, the biggest penalty in the history of antitrust enforcement.
It didn’t have to be that way.