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.

PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection watchdog has fined Google (NSQ:GOOG) 150,000 euros after the U.S. search engine ignored a three-month ultimatum to bring its practices on tracking and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late last year, Google announced a new Shopping experience and homepage that first launched in India. The Google Shopping site has now been spotted in France with its new icon, Material Theme design, ...

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 ...

Good news for virtual tourists or natives who can't keep their Parisian arrondisments straight: Google Maps Street View has come to France. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Google faces financial sanctions in France after failing to comply with an order to alter how it stores and shares user data to conform to the nation’s privacy laws. The enforcement follows an ...

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 ...

With Google already trying to contain the damage to its reputation from the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks, it now risks another dent to its image, as European privacy officials threaten to fine ...