France Google Case

France's Conseil d'Etat, the country's supreme administrative court, on Friday said it upheld a decision by a watchdog imposing a 100 million euro ($111.46 million) fine on the U.S. tech giant for breaches linked to its cookies policy.

Google said it was appealing against a EUR 500-million (roughly Rs. 4,320 crores) fine imposed by France's antitrust watchdog in July over a dispute with local media about paying for news content.

Alphabet Inc's Google is close to settling an antitrust investigation in France over allegations it abused its power in online advertising, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

France has asked Google to remove photos of prisons from the Internet, including one from which a notorious criminal known as "the jailbreak king" escaped by helicopter this year.

France will "go all the way" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said.

France's Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said on Tuesday Google would never win a court case contesting a huge tax bill claimed by French authorities.

France's Conseil d'Etat, the country's supreme administrative court, on Friday said it upheld a decision by a watchdog imposing a 100 million euro ($111.46 million) fine on the U.S. tech giant for breaches linked to its cookies policy.

Google said it was appealing against a EUR 500-million (roughly Rs. 4,320 crores) fine imposed by France's antitrust watchdog in July over a dispute with local media about paying for news content.

Alphabet Inc's Google is close to settling an antitrust investigation in France over allegations it abused its power in online advertising, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

France has asked Google to remove photos of prisons from the Internet, including one from which a notorious criminal known as "the jailbreak king" escaped by helicopter this year.

France will "go all the way" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said.

France's Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac said on Tuesday Google would never win a court case contesting a huge tax bill claimed by French authorities.