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Business lobby warning on chancellor’s new ‘Google tax’
December 5th, 2014
The chancellor wants multinationals to pay their “fair share” of tax The Confederation of British Industry has warned over Chancellor George Osborne’s plans for the UK to “go it alone” on corporate tax reform. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation ...
Yahoo to replace Google as default search engine on Firefox in US
November 20th, 2014
Yahoo will replace Google as the default search engine on the Firefox web browser in the US, signalling Yahoo’s resolve to regain some of the ground that it has lost in the most lucrative part of the internet’s ad market. The ...
European Antitrust Regulators to Hold Discussions With Google’s Rivals
November 12th, 2014
European antitrust regulators will hold discussions with the companies most concerned by Google’s business practices before deepening existing investigations or resolving them, the new competition commissioner for the European Union said Tuesday. Google has faced an increasing barrage of ...
Google signs 60-year lease on NASA airfield and hangars
November 11th, 2014
Google has sealed a deal to lease NASA’s Moffett Airfield for the next 60 years after beginning negotiations for the land back in February. Under terms of the agreement, Google will pay NASA an estimated $1.16 billion in rent over the life of the ...
Bitcoin ATM Goes Live at Google’s London Co-Working Space
November 6th, 2014
Visitors to Google’s ‘Campus London’ co-working space will now be able to buy bitcoin and spend the cryptocurrency on a coffee or muffin thanks to its new bitcoin ATM. Conveniently, the UK’s first BitAccess-made machine is located in the ...
PwC and Google Announce Joint Business Relationship
October 29th, 2014
PwC and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced the launch of a joint business relationship to bring new and innovative services to companies around the world. The rapid pace of innovation in technology has fundamentally changed how and ...
Google’s revenue falls short despite curbing price declines
October 17th, 2014
Google Inc’s revenue fell short of Wall Street’s expectations as growth in Internet advertising slowed in the most-recent quarter, offsetting a modest improvement in ad pricing, sending its shares down about 3 percent. The total number of ads, or ...
Google Provides Details on ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests
October 10th, 2014
Google said that it had removed more links in Europe to content on Facebook from its search results than from any other website. Facebook, and Google’s own services, are among the websites to be most affected by Europe’s so-called ...
EU may probe Google’s non-search services
September 24th, 2014
European competition authorities may widen an examination of Google to look at non-search services following several complaints, a senior official said yesterday. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that broadening a probe that has already been running for four ...
Google warned of harder line from EU
September 11th, 2014
The EU’s incoming digital policy chief has put Google on notice that it faces a potentially more hostile Brussels regime, suggesting the US group could be forced to be neutral in presenting search results. The US internet group has ...
