I think this is rather sad actually, this story that France wants to try and charge Google one billion euros in tax. It's sad because it's showing that the very people running a country have ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s competition authority fined Google 150 million euros ($166 million) on Friday for “abusing its dominant position” in the online ad market. The agency said the U.S. tech company ...

French authorities have shamed Google by forcing the company's landing page in France to show a message confirming it has been fined €150,000 for violating the country's privacy laws. In an emergency ...

PARIS (AP) — 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 ...

How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Google, suggests a new report commissioned by the French government. The report, handed to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand on Wednesday, says ...

Reporting from Paris — The French government is mulling a so-called Google tax that it said would help level the playing field between Internet portals that offer free content and the music, film and ...

A Paris court has ordered Google France and parent company Google Inc. to pay €500,000 ($660,000) in damages, after a two year court battle with French mapping company Bottin Cartographes over their ...

Google learned this week that offering a service for free can come at a cost, after a French court ordered the company to pay 500,000 euros to French mapping company Bottin Cartographies. The lawsuit ...

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.

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 file photo, a woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. France's anti-competition watchdog has decided to fine Google ...