Google pushes to overturn EU's $5-billion antitrust verdict on android

Regulator says the Alphabet unit abused its market dominance, while Google says it boosts competition against Apple

Alphabet unit Google on Monday criticised EU antitrust regulators for ignoring rival Apple as it launched a bid to get Europe's second-highest court to annul a record 4.34-billion euro ($5.1 billion) fine related to its Android operating system.
 
Far from holding back rivals and harming users, Android has been a massive success story of competition at work, representatives of Google told a panel of five judges at the General Court in Luxembourg at the start of a five-day hearing.
 
The European Commission fined Google in 2018, saying that it had used Android since 2011 to thwart rivals and