Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, July 18th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Google faces a record European fine.

Inside Google, Nest gets a major reshuffle.

Walmart guns for Netflix.

Venmo transactions can be public, can cool camera tech destined for smartphones actually improve autonomous vehicles.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Google has been hit with a record fine from the European Commission for breaking antitrust laws regarding its Android mobile devices.

The fine is for 4.3 billion euros which amounts to 5.06 billion dollars.

The European Commission says that Google has been abusing its Android market dominance in two main ways.

First, Google bundles its search engine and chrome apps into the Android operating system.

Device makers must include Google Search and Chrome on their devices or they can't use the

preferred Android App Store.

Second, the Commission alleges that Google has actively blocked phone makers from

making forked versions of Android, and it, quote, made payments to certain large manufacturers

and mobile network operators to keep Google the default search

on devices.

EU competition chief Marguerite Vestager said, quote, Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine.

These practices have denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits, end quote.

The fine would represent 40% of Google's net profits last year in 2017, which were

12.62 billion dollars. Previously, the largest fine levied by the European Commission was also handed down to Google,

2.42 billion euros for allegedly manipulating search results.

Google, by the way, is still appealing that fine.

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