Google hits back at EU attack on its mobile money-making machine

Google goes to court this week intent on reversing a record-breaking $5 billion European Union fine and antitrust order that struck at the heart of the U.S. tech giant's ability to make money.

At a five-day hearing at the EU's General Court in Luxembourg, the company will tell judges that the European Commission was wrong to demand changes to allegedly anti-competitive contracts with makers of phones running its Android operating system -- the engine room for the vast majority of mobile devices in the region...