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Twitter rival Gab sues Google
September 18th, 2017
Gab, a Twitter rival popular with the Breitbart crowd, is suing Google. The lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday, argues that Google violated antitrust laws when it rejected Gab’s app from its Android app store. Gab says ...
Google cancels staff meeting after Gamergate-style attack on employees
August 11th, 2017
Google cancelled a company-wide meeting on Thursday after several of its employees became targets of a Gamergate-style campaign of harassment by internet trolls angered by the firing of an engineer who had written a controversial memo about diversity. “We ...
Europe battles Google News over ‘snippet tax’ proposal
August 7th, 2017
A major battle is brewing in Brussels over an EU reform plan that would force internet aggregators such as Google News to pay newspapers for displaying snippets of their articles online. Google is furious at the reform idea, but ...
Google hires numerous law firms to fight EU fines
July 11th, 2017
Google is surrounding itself with some of the top law firms in Europe in the wake of its record-breaking €2.4 billion ‘illegal’ anti-trust ruling fine and the threat of more penalities on the horizon. Google is taking no chances ...
EU fines Google €2.42 billion for manipulating search engine results
June 27th, 2017
Antitrust: Commission fines Google €2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. Google has abused its market ...
Google faces big fine in first EU case against search practices
June 16th, 2017
Search giant is braced for a fine that could top €1bn with decision expected shortly Google is braced for a fine of potentially more than €1bn as Brussels prepares to announce the first of its trio of antitrust decisions ...
Google now lets you pay for things on your phone with any of your saved cards
May 18th, 2017
Google wants to make it a little easier to pay for things through third-party apps and through Google Assistant. However, to date, you’ve only been able to use your pre-loaded Android Pay cards to do so. Not anymore. Google ...
Smirnoff owner Diageo to pay HMRC £107m in ‘Google tax’ crackdown
May 12th, 2017
Drinks company will challenge HMRC claim for tax and interest over ‘diverted profits’ Diageo, the drinks company behind Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness, is to pay HMRC £107m under the “Google tax” crackdown aimed at multinationals. The FTSE 100 ...
Italy gets Google to pay $335 million in tax arrears
May 5th, 2017
Google has buckled again under government pressure and agreed to pay millions in back taxes in Europe. Italy’s tax agency confirmed that Google (GOOGL, Tech30) would pay €306 million ($335 million) to cover taxes for the years 2009 to ...
Google reaches settlement in antitrust case in Russia
April 19th, 2017
In relation to an antitrust case in Russia, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) has issued an announcement to inform that its has reached a settlement with Google. According the announcement: On April 17, 2017, the ...
