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Google offers behavioral pledges on news payments in France to try to end costly antitrust litigation – TechCrunch

Google offers behavioral pledges on news payments in France to try to end costly antitrust litigation – TechCrunch

In its latest move to placate European competition regulators, Google has offered a set of commitments to France’s antitrust watchdog — in the hopes of settling a costly (for it) intervention over legally mandated payments for displaying snippets of news publishers’ content. Back in July, France’s Autorité de la Concurrence slapped the tech giant with a fine of half a billion euros over a series of suspected breaches in how it negotiated with news publishers to remunerate them… Source link

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