A record EU antitrust fine of 4.3-billion-euro ($4.5 billion) imposed on Google seven years ago punished the tech giant over its innovation, the Alphabet unit told Europe's top court on Tuesday, as it asked judges to scrap the EU decision.
Google has told the technology branch of the EU's European Commission that it will not comply with a new fact-checking law to counter disinformation that Republicans have argued amounts to "censorship.
Google has begun its final attempt to overturn a €4.3 billion (about $4.4 billion) fine it received from the EU over its Android market dominance back in 2018. The antitrust decision was upheld in 2022 but reduced to €4.
Google contests EU's antitrust fine over Android, arguing users prefer its search engine and Chrome. DOJ has urged it to divest Chrome for $20B.
The EU Commission has completed its probe into X and it looks like a fine is on its way to the tune of millions of euros.
Donald Trump called the EU's regulation on U.S. tech companies, like Meta, Google and Apple, to be "a form of taxation."
Google has reportedly conveyed to the European Union (EU) that it will not add fact-checking features to search results and YouTube videos. This clearly indicates that Google will not commit to implementing measures against misinformation as demanded by the EU.
Google has accused EU antitrust watchdogs of blundering their way through a probe that culminated in a record €4.3-billion (R84-billion) fine for allegedly abusing the market power of its Android mobile ecosystem.
Chinese company and U.S. stock markets’ worst nightmare DeepSeek has launched a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1. The new tool does pretty much the same job as its many U.S. predecessors, from ChatGPT to Open AI and Midlifecrisis (only one of these is made up). But this one is cheaper. Waaaay cheaper.
Just hours into his presidency, Donald Trump signed more than 10 executive orders. All of them address areas and issues he
Several years back, the European Union approved the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation (ECSPR), which enabled issuers to raise funds across