On July 1, 2026, the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm, Sweden, handed down a ruling, mandating that Google pay roughly 14.3 billion Swedish kronor (equivalent to approximately 1.5 billion US dollars) in antitrust damages to PriceRunner, a subsidiary of the Swedish behemoth Klarna. PriceRunner alleged that Google had tampered with search results to give preferential treatment to its in-house price-comparison service, thereby breaching antitrust regulations. Google, for its part, expressed its disagreement with the court's decision and indicated that it would contemplate initiating legal proceedings to safeguard its rights.
