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 8
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 After that judgment, we plan to appeal the adverse portion of the April 2025 decision and potentially aspects of the remedies decision. A trial in the state Attorneys General case in the Eastern District of Texas will take place after a decision on remedies is issued in the DOJ case. Given the nature of these matters, we cannot estimate a possible loss.Further, in June 2023, the EC issued a Statement of Objections informing Google of its preliminary view that Google infringed 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