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Google drops appeal against €500M antitrust news licensing fine
Google has quietly dropped its appeal in France against an antitrust fine of half a billion euros levied against it last summer for major breaches in how it negotiated to…
Google’s Privacy Sandbox targeted by fresh EU antitrust complaint
German publishers are the latest to band together to try to derail or at least delay Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” plan to end support for tracking cookies in Chrome via a…
Google offers not to put News Showcase into search results in Germany as antitrust probe rolls on
In the latest bit of regulatory woe for Big Tech in Europe, Google is trying to settle a German antitrust investigation into its news licensing product by offering not to…
Android search choice screen is needed to tackle Google’s market power, says Australia’s ACCC
Australia could be next to mandate a choice screen in a bid to break Google’s dominance of the search market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is recommending it…
France fines Google $268M for adtech abuses and gets interoperability commitments
France’s competition watchdog, L’Autorité de la concurrence, has fined Google up to €220 million (~$268M) in a case related to self-preferencing within the adtech market which the watchdog found constituted an…
In latest Big Tech antitrust push, Germany’s FCO eyes Google News Showcase fine print
The Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s very active competition authority, isn’t letting the grass grow under new powers it gained this year to tackle Big Tech: The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has just…
Google inks agreement in France on paying publishers for news reuse
Google has reached an agreement with an association of French publishers over how it will be pay for reuse of snippets of their content. This is a result of application…