Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001652044-25-000091
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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ed European antitrust laws relating to its advertising technology. In September 2025, the EC announced its decision that Google had infringed European competition laws through "self-preferencing" practices on the buy-side and the sell-side relating to Google's advertising technology business. The EC decision imposed a €3.0 billion (approximately $3.5 billion as of September 5, 2025) fine and directed Google to cease and desist the alleged "self-preferencing" practices. We plan to appeal the ruling. We accrued the fine in the third quarter of 2025, resulting in a charge of $3.5 billion. We are currently engaging with the EC and a group of banking partners to place bank guarantees in the fourth quarter of 2025 in lieu of cash payment.In September 2024, the UK also issued a Statement of Objections concerning Google's advertising technology and its compliance with UK antitrust laws, to which we responded.

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•Google Play: In July 2021, a number of state Attorneys General filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California concerning Google's operation of Android and Google Play and its compliance with U.S. antitrust laws and state antitrust and consumer protection laws. In September 2023, we reached a settlement in principle with 50 state Attorneys General and three territories and recognized a charge. Final approval of the settlement remains pending before the court. In May 2024, we funded the settlement amount to an escrow agent.In December 2023, a California jury delivered a verdict against Google in Epic Games v. Google related to Google Play's business. Epic did not seek monetary damages. The presiding judge issued a remedies decision in October 2024, ordering a variety of alterations to our business models and operations and contractual agreements for Android and Google Play. We appealed the judgment, including the jury verdict and aspects of the remedies ordered, and in July 2025, the Court of Appeals denied our appeal. We are in the process of appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, and we implemented the ordered remedies in October 2025 while the appeal is pending. •European Digital Markets Act: In March 2024, the EC opened two investigations regarding Google's compliance with certain provisions of the European Union's (EU) Digital Markets Act relating to Google Play and Search. In March 2025, the EC issued preliminary findings of non-compliance in both investigations, to which