Google sued by EU and US: Pre-election lawsuit against Google sets the stage for global action on tech giants

European Union regulators hit Google with a $1.68-billion US fine on Wednesday for abusing its dominant role in online advertising.

It's the third time the commission has slapped Google with an antitrust penalty, following multibillion-dollar fines resulting from separate probes into two other parts of the Silicon Valley giant's business.

The EU's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, announced the results of the long-running probe of Google's AdSense advertising business at a news conference in Brussels on Wednesday.

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