e use biggest ever and to trust fine of five billion dollars imposed for what the e.u. said was the us tech giant illegal abuse of its market domination in mobile device operating systems the company refutes the charges though the case could take years to settle that event was overshadowed by the company's admission that it had kept a data breach under wraps it said five hundred thousand private users data had been wrongly shared on its google plus social media network which it has since shut down . german carmaker b.m.w. has announced a plan to take control of its china joint venture the first foreign automaker to take advantage of beijing's new ownership rules for the sector be. will acquire a further twenty five percent stake in the venture with brilliance china automotive for three point six billion euro the company said that would bring its stake to seventy five percent by twenty twenty two foreign automakers have long been