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Jan 20 (Reuters) – Google is filing an appeal at the European Union’s top court against an earlier decision to uphold a $2.8 billion antitrust fine, a spokesperson for the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit said late on Thursday, the company’s second bid to overturn the penalty. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals. The… Source link

A 3D printed Facebook’s new rebrand logo Meta is seen in front of displayed Google logo in this illustration taken on November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) – France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) a record 150 million euros ($169 million) for making it difficult for internet users to refuse online trackers known as cookies. Meta Platforms’… Source link

A Russian court has fined Google $98 million over its failure to remove content deemed illegal in the country. The 7.2 billion rouble fine is around eight percent of Google’s revenue in Russia, Reuters reports, and comes amid a broader push within the country to exert more control over big tech companies and the content people publish on their platforms. Google tells The Verge it will “study the court documents when they are available and then decide on next steps.” However, a… Source link

Google has agreed to pay Agence France-Presse for news content following a nasty legal and regulatory battle that saw the tech giant fined nearly $600 million by French authorities.  The deal comes after years of complaints by news publishers around the world about Google and Facebook using stories in search results without paying them. Some advertisers that used to support newspapers and magazines have also increasingly gravitated toward the tech giants,… Source link

LUXEMBOURG, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google lost an appeal against a 2.42-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for Europe’s competition chief in the first of three court rulings central to the EU push to regulate big tech. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European… Source link

In a major ruling that bolsters the European Union’s efforts to clamp down on the world’s largest technology companies, Google lost an appeal on Wednesday to overturn a landmark antitrust ruling by European regulators against the internet giant. The decision by the Luxembourg-based General Court related to a 2017 decision by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, to fine Google 2.4 billion euros (about $2.8 billion) for giving preferential treatment to its own… Source link

Google app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo MILAN, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Italy’s antitrust regulator has started proceedings to fine Google (GOOGL.O) for allegedly restrictive clauses in the terms of service consumers have to accept to use Google Drive. In a filing, the antitrust said the proceedings had to be wrapped up within 120 days. Google was not immediately available for a comment. Reporting by Stephen Jewkes Our Standards: The… Source link

The logo of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is reflected in a laptop screen showing Google start page. May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it would this month seek to fine U.S. tech giant Google a percentage of its annual Russian turnover for repeatedly failing to delete content deemed illegal, Moscow’s strongest effort yet to rein in foreign tech firms. Communications regulator Roskomnadzor said Google had failed to pay… Source link

Google urges EU court to scrap or cut record fine EU regulators say fine is significantly below cap LUXEMBOURG, Sept 30 (Reuters) – A 4.34 billion euro ($5 billion) European Union antitrust fine was based on flawed calculations, Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Thursday, urging Europe’s second-highest court to scrap or reduce what it said was not an appropriate penalty. Google was fined for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals and cement its dominance in general… Source link

The Google exhibit building shows off a variety of devices with Google Assistant, including Android smartphones and Wear OS smartwatches during the CES tech show in 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption … Source link