France slaps Google with $166M antitrust fine for opaque and inconsistent ad rules. UK’s CMA launches investigation into digital advertising and its ‘potential harm’ to consumers.

Google France's legal director, Maria Gomri, said in a blog post Monday that Google has been collaborating for the past two years with the French watchdog on issues related to ad technology, ...

France’s competition authority said today that it’s applying the sanction of €500 million ($592M) against the tech giant for failing to comply with a number of injunctions related to its ...

France’s law requires Google to pay what has been called a “link tax” — effectively a license to display snippets of press articles on Google News.

Google France may have just revived the "Google+ is dead" crowd with it's recent post stating they'll be leaving G+ in favour of Facebook and Twitter.

Google plans to fight a $591 million fine that was levied by France’s antitrust watchdog earlier this summer over compensating publishers for news content — just one front in a broader battle ...

Despite the irrefutable success of Google’s flagship social media network, a great tragedy has befallen Google+, because this weekend, Google France says it is shutting down its own page on ...

Such sums are small change to Google and its parent company Alphabet, which made $61.9 billion in the last quarter alone.But the FCA's ruling on Google’s ad tech was headline-grabbing for ...

In addition to the 500,000 euro payment, Google will have to pay an additional 15,000 euro fine. A spokesperson for Google France promised that the company will appeal the verdict.

The Lower Court of Nanterre required Google France to pay 70,000 euros (about $81,400) to two companies that owned the rights to certain words.

Google’s challenges in France are certainly more modest than its problems in China, where the company said this week that it was no longer willing to comply with demands for Web censorship, ...

PARIS As France slowly brings its cultural past and present into digital form, it is realizing that the job will require support from a company often viewed with deep suspicion here: Google ...