EU slaps $3.45bn fine on Google for unfair ad practices | Technology News

Tech giant fined for third time in a week after being hit with multimillion-dollar penalties in US and France.

The European Union has imposed a penalty of 2.95 billion euros ($3.45bn) on Google for favouring its own advertising services, marking the fourth time the tech giant has been fined in its decade-long fight with the bloc’s competition regulators.

The European Commission accused Google of distorting competition in the 27-nation bloc after investigating…