France fines Google over search, app store results
1 year, 5 months ago

France fines Google over search, app store results

The Hindu  

French authorities imposed a two-million-euro fine on Google on Tuesday over incomplete results in its search engine and app store. The Competition, Consumer and Anti-Fraud Office said the U.S. tech giant's search engine lacked information concerning the ranking criteria of results. The Google Play Store, it added, also lacked information on the ranking criteria of results, payment information and dispute resolution procedures. The anti-fraud office said Google has since "corrected part of the sanctioned shortcoming".

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Google hit with 3.8 million rouble fine in Russia for non-compliance
1 month ago

Google hit with 3.8 million rouble fine in Russia for non-compliance

Live Mint  

Alphabet's Google has been fined 3.8 million roubles by a Russian district court for failing to remove content deemed illegal under Russian regulations, reported Reuters. In parallel, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the company’s challenges during a recent earnings call, including the ongoing antitrust scrutiny in the United States. When questioned about the proposed remedies stemming from the Department of …

France court orders Google to halt news search scheme which might suppress some media articles
1 month, 1 week ago

France court orders Google to halt news search scheme which might suppress some media articles

Firstpost  

The Paris commercial court was ruling on an emergency injunction sought by the SEPM union that represents magazine staff in France A court in Paris ordered Google to halt its news search project which many claimed is intended to surpress media articles. Image Credit: Reuters A Paris court on Wednesday ordered Google to halt a project that would allegedly see …

Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The fine, which is the equivalent of $20 billion trillion trillion, is the result of four years …

French media sue Google for $1.1 billion over advertising
3 months ago

French media sue Google for $1.1 billion over advertising

New Indian Express  

Paris: Seven French media groups plan to sue Google seeking more than 1 billion euros for alleged anti-competitive practices in online advertising, a report said Friday. The move comes after the French competition watchdog fined Google 220 million euros in June 2021 for favouring its own services in the online advertising sector. The French competition authority has stated that Google …

Google wins challenge against 1.49 billion euro EU antitrust fine
3 months ago

Google wins challenge against 1.49 billion euro EU antitrust fine

Live Mint  

Alphabet unit Google won its challenge on Wednesday against a 1.49 billion euro antitrust fine imposed five years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising, a week after it lost a much bigger case. The European Commission in its 2019 decision said Google had abused its dominance to prevent websites from using brokers other than its AdSense platform that …

Google loses EU court appeal against 2.4-bln-euro fine
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Google loses EU court appeal against 2.4-bln-euro fine

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-09-11 00:47 People walk next to a Google logo during a trade fair in Hannover Messe, in Hanover, Germany on April 22. BRUSSELS -- Google lost its final court appeal on Tuesday against a European Union fine of 2.4 billion euros, for abuse of its dominant position by favoring its own comparison shopping service. In 2017, the …

Google loses fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Google loses fight against $2.7 billion EU antitrust fine

The Hindu  

Alphabet's Google on Tuesday lost its fight against a 2.42 billion euro fine levied by EU antitrust regulators seven years ago, one of a trio of hefty fines meted out to the company for various anti-competitive practices. The European Commission fined the world's most popular internet search engine in 2017 for using its own price comparison shopping service to gain …

Google loses final EU court appeal against 2.4 billion euro fine in antitrust shopping case
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Google loses final EU court appeal against 2.4 billion euro fine in antitrust shopping case

Associated Press  

LONDON — Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine. The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a lower court’s decision, rejecting the company’s appeal against the 2.4 billion euro …

Google fined €250 million in France over dispute with news publishers
9 months ago

Google fined €250 million in France over dispute with news publishers

Live Mint  

France’s competition watchdog fined Google 250 million euros, saying the search giant breached some commitments it made to negotiate license deals with an array of news publishers in the country. The Alphabet unit has for years been in the cross hairs of the French competition authority over its use of news publishers’ content in search results and, in 2022, Google …

France Fines Yahoo 10 Million Euros Over Cookie Abuses
11 months ago

France Fines Yahoo 10 Million Euros Over Cookie Abuses

News 18  

France’s data protection watchdog said Thursday that it had fined Yahoo 10 million euros for not respecting users’ refusals of internet-tracking “cookies” or implying they would lose access to email accounts if they did. In addition, Yahoo Mail users who attempted to withdraw consent for cookies were warned they would no longer have access to messaging or other Yahoo services., …

Google should pay a multibillion fine in antitrust shopping case, an EU court adviser says
11 months, 1 week ago

Google should pay a multibillion fine in antitrust shopping case, an EU court adviser says

Associated Press  

LONDON — A legal adviser to the European Union’s top court said Thursday that Google should pay a whopping fine in a long-running antitrust case in which regulators found the company gave its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results. In a legal opinion, Kokott also proposed upholding the 2.4 billion euro fine that the European …

Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users
1 year, 1 month ago

Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users

The Hindu  

A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine. A magistrate at Moscow's Tagansky district court fined Google 15 million rubles after the company repeatedly refused to …

Google in last ditch effort to overturn $2.6 bln EU antitrust fine
1 year, 3 months ago

Google in last ditch effort to overturn $2.6 bln EU antitrust fine

The Hindu  

Alphabet's Google on Tuesday made a last-ditch effort at Europe's top court to overturn a 2.42 billion euro EU antitrust fine imposed for market abuse related to its shopping service, saying that regulators failed to show that its practices were anti-competitive. Google lawyer Thomas Graf said the European Commission had failed to show that the company's different treatment of rivals …

Google in trouble again! $32 million fine for unfair practices in the app market
1 year, 8 months ago

Google in trouble again! $32 million fine for unfair practices in the app market

India TV News  

South Korea's antitrust regulator has reportedly slapped a fine of 42.1 billion won on Google and its regional arms for unfair business practices, with the aim to solidify its dominance in the Korean smartphone gaming app market. One Store is a major homegrown app market launched in January 2016 by South Korea's three mobile carriers, along with Naver Corp, reports …

Apple fined 1 million euros by Paris court over App Store practices
2 years ago

Apple fined 1 million euros by Paris court over App Store practices

The Hindu  

The Paris Commercial Court on Monday fined iPhone maker Apple just over 1 million euros for imposing abusive commercial clauses on French app developers for access to the company's App Store, the court ruling showed. The ruling, seen by Reuters, said there was no need to order Apple, which has a market value of about $2.1 trillion, to tweak the …

Google appeals huge Android antitrust fine to EU's top court
2 years ago

Google appeals huge Android antitrust fine to EU's top court

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google is challenging a record …

Google to appeal Android fine at Europe's top court
2 years, 1 month ago

Google to appeal Android fine at Europe's top court

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google will appeal its record 4.1-billion-euro EU antitrust fine at Europe's top court after a lower tribunal threw out its challenge last month, the U.S. tech giant said on Thursday. The Luxembourg-based General Court broadly backed the European Commission's 2018 decision but pruned the fine to 4.125 billion euros from 4.34 billion euros. Judges agreed with the European …

Google fined ₹936 crore in second antitrust penalty this month in India
2 years, 1 month ago

Google fined ₹936 crore in second antitrust penalty this month in India

Live Mint  

Alphabet Inc's Google was on Tuesday fined $113.04 million or ₹936 crore as India concluded yet another antitrust probe this month. After examination, it was found that “Google has perpetuated its dominant position in the online search market resulting in denial of market access for competing search apps in contravention of Section 4 of the Act. Google has leveraged its …

‘Major setback': Google on Competition Commission's ₹1,338 crore fine order
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Major setback': Google on Competition Commission's ₹1,338 crore fine order

Hindustan Times  

Search engine giant Google on Friday called the ₹1,337.76 crore fine imposed by Competition Commission of India a ‘major setback for Indian consumers and businesses’. On Thursday, the anti-trust watchdog ordered Google to pay a ₹1,337.76 crore fine for ‘abusing its dominant position’ in multiple markets in the Android ecosystem. The CCI noted that Google ‘perpetuated’ its dominant position in …

Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case - letter
2 years, 2 months ago

Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case - letter

The Hindu  

More than 40 European rivals to Google's shopping service urged EU antitrust regulators on Monday to use newly adopted tech rules to ensure the Alphabet unit complies with a 2017 EU order to allow more competition on its search page. The European Commission fined Google 2.4 billion euros five years ago and told the firm to stop favouring its shopping …

EU court largely upholds USD 4 billion Google Android antitrust fine
2 years, 3 months ago

EU court largely upholds USD 4 billion Google Android antitrust fine

Firstpost  

The court said that “in order better to reflect the gravity and duration of the infringement”, it’s appropriate to give Google a fine of 4.125 billion euros, according to a press summary of the decision London: One of the European Union’s highest courts has largely upheld the bloc’s biggest-ever antitrust fine, issued to Google by the bloc’s competition enforcers in …

EU court largely upholds $4B Google Android antitrust fine
2 years, 3 months ago

EU court largely upholds $4B Google Android antitrust fine

Associated Press  

LONDON — A top court largely rejected Google’s appeal of a record European Union antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The European Court of Justice’s General Court mostly confirmed a 2018 decision by the EU’s executive Commission to slap Google with a fine of more than 4 …

Google loses appeal against record EU antitrust fine, to pay 4.125 billion Euros
2 years, 3 months ago

Google loses appeal against record EU antitrust fine, to pay 4.125 billion Euros

Firstpost  

In 2018, a court in EU fined Google to the tune of 4.3 billion Euros. The second-highest court of the European Union overwhelmingly upheld the EU’s record fine against Google over its alleged misconduct in providing its Android operating system for mobile phones. So now, instead of 4.3 billion Euros, Google will need to pay 4.125 billion Euros In a …

EU court largely upholds $4 billion Google Android antitrust fine
2 years, 3 months ago

EU court largely upholds $4 billion Google Android antitrust fine

The Hindu  

A top court largely rejected Google's appeal of a record European Union antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. The European Court of Justice's General Court mostly confirmed a 2018 decision by the EU's executive Commission to slap Google with a fine of more than 4 billion euros. …

Australian court orders Google to pay $43 mln for misleading users
2 years, 4 months ago

Australian court orders Google to pay $43 mln for misleading users

The Hindu  

Australia's competition watchdog said on Friday that Alphabet Inc's Google unit was ordered by the country's Federal Court to pay A$60 million in penalties for misleading users on collection of their personal location data. The court found Google misled some customers about personal location data collected through their Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018. Google misled users …

Google faces $1 billion UK trial over app store pricing
2 years, 5 months ago

Google faces $1 billion UK trial over app store pricing

The Hindu  

Google faces a London trial over an estimated 920-milion-pound damages claim after a court authorised a lawsuit that alleges the Alphabet-owned tech giant overcharged 19.5 million customers for app store purchases. The class action, which was certified by the Competition Appeal Tribunal on Monday, alleges Google abused its dominant position by charging up to 30% commission on popular apps on …

Google resolves French copyright dispute over online content
2 years, 6 months ago

Google resolves French copyright dispute over online content

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google has committed to resolving a copyright dispute in France over online content, the country's antitrust authority said on Tuesday, as pressure mounts for big tech platforms to share more of their revenue with news outlets. Media outlets ‘deprived of potential revenue stream’ News publishers had argued that the rise of Google's ad sales online was underpinned by …

Google urges court to scrap $1.6 billion EU antitrust fine
2 years, 7 months ago

Google urges court to scrap $1.6 billion EU antitrust fine

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google on Monday urged Europe's second-highest court to dismiss a 1.49-billion-euro fine imposed by EU antitrust regulators three years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising. The European Commission in its 2019 decision said Google had abused its dominance to stop websites using brokers other than its AdSense platform which provided search adverts. The EU competition enforcer's …

Google launches fresh appeal to overturn $2.8 billion fine at top EU court
2 years, 11 months ago

Google launches fresh appeal to overturn $2.8 billion fine at top EU court

The Hindu  

Google is filing an appeal at the European Union's top court against an earlier decision to uphold a $2.8 billion antitrust fine, a spokesperson for the Alphabet unit said late on Thursday, the company's second bid to overturn the penalty. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world's most popular internet search engine in 2017 over the use of its …

France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent
2 years, 11 months ago

France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent

Associated Press  

LONDON — French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French users a single …

Google, Meta fined by France for cookie breach
2 years, 11 months ago

Google, Meta fined by France for cookie breach

The Hindu  

France's data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet's Google 150 million euros for making it difficult for internet users to refuse online trackers known as cookies. "The CNIL has found that the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com websites do not allow to refuse cookies as easily as it is to accept them", the watchdog said in a …

Google loses appeal of huge EU fine over shopping searches
3 years, 1 month ago

Google loses appeal of huge EU fine over shopping searches

Associated Press  

LONDON — A top European Union court on Wednesday rejected Google’s appeal of a 2.4 billion euro fine from regulators who found the tech giant abused its massive online reach by giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage in search results. The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top competition watchdog, punished Google in 2017 for unfairly directing visitors to …

Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling
3 years, 1 month ago

Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google lost an appeal to a 2.42-billion-euro European antitrust decision on Wednesday, a major win for the bloc’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager in the first of three court rulings that will strengthen the EU's push to regulate big tech. "The General Court largely dismisses Google's action against the decision of the Commission finding that Google abused its dominant …

Google tells court ‘staggering’ $5 billion EU antitrust fine flawed
3 years, 2 months ago

Google tells court ‘staggering’ $5 billion EU antitrust fine flawed

The Hindu  

A 4.34 billion euro European Union antitrust fine was based on flawed calculations, Alphabet's Google said on Thursday, urging Europe's second-highest court to scrap or reduce what it said was not an appropriate penalty. "The fine that was imposed, a staggering 4.34 billion euros, was not appropriate," Google's lawyer Genevra Forwood told the five-judge panel of the General Court on …

Google offers to settle EU antitrust probe into digital advertising
3 years, 3 months ago

Google offers to settle EU antitrust probe into digital advertising

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google is seeking to settle an EU antitrust investigation into its digital advertising business, a person familiar with the matter said, a move that could help it stave off a disruptive, lengthy probe and a possible hefty fine. The European Commission opened an investigation in June into whether Google favours its own online display advertising technology services to …

EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results
3 years, 4 months ago

EU gives Google 2 months to improve hotel, flight search results

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google has two months to improve the way it presents internet search results for flights and hotels and explain how it ranks these or face possible sanctions, the European Commission and EU consumer authorities said on Monday. The world's most popular internet search engine has long faced scrutiny from antitrust enforcers and consumer groups around the world over …

Google Fined $592 Million In France For Breaching Copyright Of News Publishers
3 years, 5 months ago

Google Fined $592 Million In France For Breaching Copyright Of News Publishers

ABP News  

Paris: Technology conglomerate Google Inc on Tuesday was fined $592 million by France's competition regulator for allegedly violating orders to negotiate paid deals with French publishers. According to reports, the agency has even warned Google to come up with proposals within two months on how it will compensate news producers or it will levy a fine of another 900,000 euros …

Google fined 500 mln euros by France’s antirust regulator
3 years, 5 months ago

Google fined 500 mln euros by France’s antirust regulator

The Hindu  

France's antitrust watchdog slapped a 500 million euro fine on Alphabet's Google on Tuesday for failing to comply fully with temporary orders the regulator had given in a row with the country's news publishers. News publishers APIG, SEPM and AFP accuse the tech company of having failed to open talks in good faith with them to find common ground for …

France fines Google for abusing ‘dominant’ ads position
3 years, 6 months ago

France fines Google for abusing ‘dominant’ ads position

Associated Press  

PARIS — Google is being fined 220 million euros by France’s antitrust watchdog for abusing its ‘dominant’ position in online advertising. Google’s advertising practices have harmed its competitors along with publishers of mobile websites and applications, the French Competition Authority said Monday. The head of the authority, Isabelle de Silva, said the decision was unprecedented in the way that it …

France fines Google 220 mn euros over online ad dominance
3 years, 6 months ago

France fines Google 220 mn euros over online ad dominance

The Hindu  

France's competition regulator fined Google 220 million euros on Monday after finding it had favoured its own services for placing online ads at the expense of rivals, as US tech giants face growing pressure in Europe. Media groups looking to sell ad space on their internet sites or mobile apps using rival platforms often found that Google's services were unfairly …

Turkey fines Google for abusing dominant position
3 years, 8 months ago

Turkey fines Google for abusing dominant position

The Hindu  

Turkey's Competition Board has fined Alphabet Inc's Google more than 296 million lira for abusing its dominant position in search engine services, the regulator said on Wednesday. Google must ensure within six months that competitors are not disadvantaged and report to the board annually for five years on the issue, the regulator added. Google responded that its search services were …

French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers
3 years, 10 months ago

French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with news publishers

The Hindu  

French antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet Inc's Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority's orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over copyright, two sources who read the investigators' report said. This comes amid complaints by French news publishers that Google failed to hold talks with them in good faith to find an agreement. The …

Google's $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated
3 years, 10 months ago

Google's $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated

The Hindu  

Alphabet Inc's Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters show. Publishers in other countries will scrutinise the French agreement, the highest-profile in the world under Google's new program to provide compensation for news snippets used in search …

Google's advertising practices targeted by EU antitrust probe
3 years, 11 months ago

Google's advertising practices targeted by EU antitrust probe

The Hindu  

EU antitrust regulators have sought information from advertisers regarding Google's advertising technology practices, a European Commission document seen by Reuters shows. Alphabet-owned Google, the world's largest online search engine, has been hit with fines totalling 8.25 billion euros in the last three years for blocking rivals in online shopping, Android smartphones and online advertising. Google said it was cooperating with …

French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules
4 years ago

French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules

The Hindu  

France's data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros to Alphabet's Google for breaching the country's rules on online advertising trackers. Google and Amazon also failed to provide clear information to internet users about how the firms intended to make use of such online trackers and how visitors to their French websites could refuse …

Google faces damage claims worth over Rs 3,000 crore from Czech web search company
4 years ago

Google faces damage claims worth over Rs 3,000 crore from Czech web search company

India Today  

Google has often come under the scanner for having a privileged position in the market when it comes to offering internet-powered search services. The search engine giant is now facing damage claims from Seznam, which is an indigenous web search platform operational in the Czech Republic. According to a report by Reuters, Seznam has said that Google has abused dominance …

EU sets out search ranking guidelines for Google, Microsoft, platforms
4 years ago

EU sets out search ranking guidelines for Google, Microsoft, platforms

Live Mint  

BRUSSELS :Alphabet unit Google, Microsoft and other tech giants will have to be more transparent in how they rank online search results, under European Commission guidelines out on Monday. Smaller rivals and some companies have long complained about arbitrary and opaque practices tech giants employ that affect how their products and services are ranked in search results, especially when that …

US antitrust crackdown on Google echoes Europe's moves
4 years, 2 months ago

US antitrust crackdown on Google echoes Europe's moves

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Google got its first EU antitrust penalty in 2017, …

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