Top French court upholds $56 million Google privacy breach fine

[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – France’s top administrative court upheld a 50 million-euro fine ($56 million) imposed last year on Alphabet’s Google for breaching European Union online privacy rules, it said…

GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares look for rebound following tech earnings

[ad_1] Oct 30 (Reuters) – Asian markets looked to continue an upward swing on Friday, after a rebound in U.S. equities and strong corporate earnings set the stage. Australia’s ASX…

RPT-Microsoft to invest $1.5 bln in Italian cloud business

[ad_1] (Repeats story from Friday, May 8, to include codes for wider distribution; no changes to text) MILAN, May 8 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would create…

Google to add App Store privacy labels to its iOS apps as soon as this week

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said…

France, Germany in standoff with Silicon Valley on contact tracing

[ad_1] By Mathieu Rosemain, Douglas Busvine PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) – A standoff between the two largest nations in the European Union and Silicon Valley escalated on Friday as Apple and Google…

The media has a big problem, Reuters Institute says – Who will pay for the news?

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – News organisations are being challenged by technology giants and unsettled by a broader lack of trust but they have a much deeper problem: most people don’t…

EU’s Vestager working on criteria to define market influence

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: EU Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager holds a news conference on Broadcom in Brussels, Belgium October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Pool BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU plans to…

Google says Denmark is reviewing its taxes there

[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, United States, July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish…

Twitter labels Trump tweet about ‘surprise ballot dumps’ as possibly disputed and misleading

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Wednesday flagged a post by President Donald Trump which said “surprise ballot dumps” were being found in hotly contested states during the presidential…

U.S. to announce, but defer, retaliation over French digital tax: USTR

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration will announce actions against France over its digital services tax but will defer them while France defers tax collections from U.S. technology firms,…