Challenges to Silicon Valley won’t just come from Brussels

Fine of €2.4bn levied on Google is a sign of the continued erosion of US tech firms’ domination of the internetThe whopping €2.4bn fine levied by the European commission on Google for abusing its dominance as a search engine has taken Silicon Valley aback. It has also reignited American paranoia about the motives of European regulators, whom many Valley types seem to regard as stooges of Mathias Döpfner, the chief executive of German media group Axel Springer, president of t