Lionel Laurent, Columnist

Google Won't Be Going Quietly

The tech giants probably are too powerful, but Alphabet won't go quietly.
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The EU has thrown down its gauntlet before Google, saying the search giant has abused its market dominance by giving unfair advantage to its own services.

It's a verdict with implications far beyond this specific probe of the online shopping market. It's in Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s interest to fight.