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Google is appealing the more than half a billion dollar fine it got slapped with by France’s competition authority in July. The penalty relates to the adtech giant’s approach toward paying news publishers for content reuse. In a statement today, Sebastien Missoffe, a Google France VP and country manager, characterized the fine as “disproportionate” — claiming that the $592M penalty is not justified in light of Google’s “efforts” to cut a deal with news publishers and… Source link

It was January 2021 in McKinley County, New Mexico, and George Munoz was despondent. Ten months into the coronavirus pandemic, the devastating impact on his community weighed him down. “We live in a small town, so everybody kind of knows everybody right?” Munoz, a representative elected to the state’s legislature, told Yahoo Finance. “For seven days straight, I knew somebody who had died.” McKinley County has one of the highest COVID-related mortality rates in the U.S., according to a new… Source link