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> In my opinion, there's zero chance of Google being broken up

In 2004 when the European commission fined Microsoft €497m, I thought the company had good enough lawyers and lobbies to overturn it. This case and the next one in 2008 finally resulted in more than $2bn in fines [1], more than 3% of its global revenue [2].

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_comp...

[2] http://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global-...




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