A French court has ruled against Google France in an intellectual property dispute, saying the company must pay a fine for allowing advertisers to tie their text notices to trademarked search terms.

MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF/AP) — France's antitrust watchdog fined Google the equivalent of $268 million this week for abusing its power in the field of online advertising. The search engine giant is also ...

Google is navigating some complicated waters when it comes to news, with the tech giant deciding to pay publishers based in France while threatening to leave Australia for insisting on the same.

The publishers were forced to give away the content for free, it suggested, because Google has a 90 percent share of the search market in France. As such, publishers would suffer lost business (a 26 ...

On June 7, Isabelle de Silva, a little-known French regulator, made global headlines. After a painstaking investigation, which de Silva describes as the most complex she has been involved in, the ...

Google accepts fine for replacing official star ratings with their own. An investigation found Google's search engine results were 'misleading'. France’s Directorate General for Competition, ...

Historically, Google users around the world have visited country-specific sites like google.com.br (Brazil), google.fr (France), or google.co.uk (UK). Google Search is now getting rid of these country ...

France’s data protection authority has fined Google €325 million ($381 million) for showing ads in Gmail and using cookies without proper user consent, according to a Reuters report. The Commission ...

Paris – Google is being fined 220 million euros ($268 million) by France’s antitrust watchdog for abusing its ‘dominant’ position in online advertising. The search engine giant is also promising to ...

Google.com will soon be the only way to access Google Search. The ccTLD versions of Google will redirect to Google.com. That means if you try to go to Google.ca, Google.fr. Google.co.uk and so on, ...

In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, file photo, a woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, FILE) PARIS (AP) — Google is being fined 220 ...