Alphabet Inc.’s Google was hit with a $5.1 billion fine from the European Union over what the EU calls an abuse of the Android operating system.
The decision mark’s the EU’s biggest antitrust fine to date. The bloc’s antitrust regulator found Wednesday that Google had abused the dominance of its Android operating system to promote and entrench the company’s popular search engine.
The fine – Europe’s largest so far related to antitrust issues – is equivalent to around 40....