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Europe's finance ministers plot course for tax harmonisation

France is leading the push for reform with the so-called equalisation tax and it has companies such as Amazon and Google and Apple its crosshairs

France

How did the Internet react to Juncker's State of the Union speech?

Google searches, tweets and controversy.

Economy

Google lodges appeal against 2.4bn EU fine

Google appeals record European Commission fine.

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What does the world most want to learn how to do on Google?

Google has revealed the top 10 most-searched questions across the world

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EU studies proposed compliance plan from Google

Internet giant was fined record 2.4 billion euros in June over claims it breached anti-trust rules and was told to come up with a solution

USA

Wal-Mart and Google team up to take on Amazon

To beat the world's largest online retailer at its own game, it takes an internet giant and a retail giant to team up

USA

The Google diversity memo: key arguments and reactions

Google memo: What exactly does it say and how has the tech industry reacted?

USA

Google fires employee James Damore for 'gender stereotypes' memo

James Damore says he was sacked for claiming that gender imbalance in the tech industry was 'in part due to biological causes'.

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Alphabet profits hit by record EU fine

USA

Google robot produces a million mosquitoes a week to release into wild

Economy

France opposes Google tax ruling

The French government says it's going to lodge an appeal against a court ruling that Google is not liable to pay 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in back taxes.

World News

Euroviews. Social Media: the Faustian deal

Social media are not one phenomenon. They raise issues for privacy, for freedom of expression, innovation, competition and, for all of these reasons, for democracy.

My Europe Series

State of the Union: Let the Brexit battle commence!

Our weekly round-up of the top stories from Europe's de-facto political capital

World News

Google's record-breaking EU fine explained

The world’s most popular search engine, Google, faces a record-breaking €2.42 billion fine from the European Commission after a seven-year investigation found it violated EU anti-trust laws.

Europe News

The Brief from Brussels: EU fines Google

This is the Brief from Brussels, a roundup of the top stories from the EU's de facto political capital

Business Series

Google hit with record fine for abusing internet search monopoly

World News

EU fines Google a record €2.42bn

The EU says it for abusing its dominant position to manipulate search engine results for its own benefit.

Ukraine

Ukraine blocks Russia's answer to Facebook and Google

Russia's Facebook and Google equivalents have been banned in Ukraine - hitting millions of web surfers.

Business Series

Google to pay 306 million euros additional tax to Italy

Google's parent company - Alphabet - is to pay 306 million euros to settle a tax dispute with Italy covered 13 years up to 2015.

World News

Silicon revolt as big US tech firms say no to Trump's visa crackdown

A gaggle of America's biggest hi-tech companies have called for a silicon veto of President Trump's tightening of controls on HB1 visas, saying they threaten jobs and competitivity.