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.

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 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.

LONDON: Christian Kroll has long worried about Europe’s dependence on US Big Tech, but now the head of German search engine Ecosia has a new tool to take on Google and Microsoft. Ecosia, which uses advertising profits from its 20 million users to plant ...

Coca-Cola has recalled some of its soft drinks in Europe after higher-than-normal levels of a chemical called chlorate were detected in bottles and cans at a Belgian production plant.

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Ireland's protection commission said it had also requested information from DeepSeek about data processing in relation to Irish users

European politicians and advocacy groups say the region’s legislation will not dismantle the monopolies of Big Tech companies.

A group of 18 former European heads of state have called on the European Commission to break up Google’s highly lucrative advertising-technology business, claiming it erodes Europe’s media ...

The three vans sit on a new 800-volt platform that enables 20-minute charging top-ups to 80%. Flexis announced it will sell three all-electric vans in Europe starting next year. The company is a joint venture between Renault Group,

DeepSeek privacy concerns have led to investigations being opened in both the US and Europe, and seen the app removed from the App Store in Italy. It seems likely the same will happen in other countries. Italian’s privacy regulator questioned whether the app complied with GDPR, a tough privacy law that applies across 30 different countries …

Trump bump meets reality: Concerns that Chinese startup DeepSeek has come up with a powerful new AI model that can do things better, faster and cheaper than the U.S. front-runners rattled stock markets, wiping a whopping $600 billion off chip-maker Nvidia and plunging the Nasdaq into disarray.