Google has told customers that it will raise the rates for advertisements on its French and Spanish platforms by two percent from May to help offset the impact of a digital tax on profits.
Two French environmental NGOs and a union group on Sunday slammed the environmental impact of Amazon, vowing to disrupt its "Black Friday" sale campaign later this week.
Google cannot escape French law obliging the US online giant to pay royalties to media outlets for displaying their articles, pictures and videos in search results, French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
The French parliament on Tuesday adopted a copyright reform to ensure media are paid for original content, typically
news, offered online by tech giants such as Google and Facebook.
A French consumer rights group said on Wednesday that it has launched a class action lawsuit against US tech giant Google for violating the EU's strict data privacy laws.
France's data watchdog announced Monday a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US web search giant Google, using the EU's strict General Data Protection Regulation for the first time.
France's economy minister said Friday he expects to reach agreement with Germany in the coming weeks on a European digital tax targetting US tech giants.
EU finance ministers battled Saturday over a controversial proposal to slap a European tax on US tech giants amid rising worries that it is ineffective and protectionist.
The EU will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of two to six percent on revenues in every country where they operate, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday.
Google on Monday announced it will open a research centre in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence, following a meeting between the tech giant's boss and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The United States does not support a
French proposal to tax the gross revenues of international tech corporations like Google and Amazon, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday.
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire accused US internet giants on Friday of escaping their fair share of taxes in Europe, as he pushed the EU to urgently address the issue.
The French government will appeal a court ruling that US internet giant Google is not liable for 1.12 billion euros ($1.27 billion) in taxes claimed by the state, Budget Minister Gerald Darmanin said Thursday.
France's finance minister urged his European counterparts Sunday to do more to chase down tax due from the European operations of US tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Facebook.
French investigators have revealed the extraordinary lengths they had to go to as they carried out an exhaustive tax fraud probe into Google – including cutting off the internet.
Google said Thursday it feared for free speech if France succeeded in forcing it to apply the right to have information about a person removed from its search engines not just in France, but worldwide.
French authorities have demanded that US Internet giant Google pay €1.6 billion ($1.7 billion) in back taxes, a source close to the matter said Wednesday, as controversy mounts over the tax arrangements of multinational corporations.
They struggle with the English internet slang term "LMAO", have no idea what COP21 is but love a good sex romp: here's what the Google searches from France in 2015 tell us about the French.
Google opened a new interactive movie-making hub in Paris on Thursday, a move it labelled a "no brainer" considering the French capital is home to one of the world's most vibrant YouTube communities."
