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Google’s French headquarters raided in tax probe
May 25th, 2016
French police have raided Google’s Paris offices as part of an investigation into “aggravated tax fraud” and money laundering. The raid is the latest regulatory headache for the US search engine and email company, which like other Silicon Valley ...
Google announced it would ban payday-loan ads from its site
May 23rd, 2016
Google announced this month it would ban payday-loan ads. One wrinkle: It is an investor in a payday lender. GV, the venture-capital investment arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has been investing in online lender LendUp since before the startup launched ...
EU charges Google with abusing market dominance of Android
April 21st, 2016
Google found itself under fire again on Wednesday from EU antitrust regulators who say it abused the dominant position of its Android mobile operating system, a move which could hit a key money-spinner for the company. The charges by ...
France fines Google for breaking ‘right to be forgotten’ law
March 28th, 2016
The nation can’t control what people access outside its borders, Google says. Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law is a boon to privacy, helping individuals hide embarrassing Facebook posts and other “out-of-date and irrelevant” results from search engines. However, ...
Russian court rejects Google’s anti-monopoly appeal
March 15th, 2016
The Moscow Arbitration Court has dismissed an appeal by Google against a decision by Russia’s competition watchdog that the US company broke anti-monopoly laws. The court upheld the ruling of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) that Google abused its ...
Apple, McDonald’s, Google and IKEA to face EU lawmakers over tax deals
March 15th, 2016
Apple (AAPL.O), Google (GOOGL.O), McDonald’s (MCD.N) and IKEA will be asked about their European tax deals on Wednesday as EU lawmakers ratchet up the pressure on multinationals to pay more tax on their profits locally. The hearing, organized by ...
Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
Google £130m UK Tax Deal ‘Small’ Say MPs
February 25th, 2016
An influential committee of MPs is the latest to line up and criticise the settlement between the taxman and Google. MPs have declared that Google’s controversial £130m tax deal with the UK “seems disproportionately small”, and called for the ...
Google Isn’t Paying the ‘Google Tax’
February 19th, 2016
Close to four years ago, Europe began to notice that some of the world’s biggest technology companies were paying minimal tax on the billions of dollars they earned across the continent. Among those the U.K. and other governments criticized ...
Google Grilling: Search Giant Faces More Questions Over Tax Deal With UK Government
February 11th, 2016
Earlier this month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, granted Google CEO Sundar Pichai almost $200 million in stock options. That sum, generous by any measure, is greater than the $185 million Google agreed to pay a week earlier to settle British tax issues covering the past ...
