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Google has been fined a record $2.7 billion in Europe for anticompetitive practices with their shopping search service. The European Commission was investigating Google for claims that they used their control of the search service to promote their own products over competitors.

Google has been facing an antitrust investigation by the EU lately and a new report says it could come to a close as early as Tuesday. While official numbers haven't been given out, the report says Google could be forced to pay as much as $1.2 billion

The United States has already put regulations in place for drones and now it looks like the European Union wants to do the same. The commission has decided they would like to have this done and completed before 2020.

Back in October of last year, it was announced that Qualcomm was going to acquire NXP for $47 billion. However, the purchase has caught the eye of the European Union and is said to be under investigation right now.

Some EU tech companies are filing complaints against the top America internet companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple for using their dominating market positions to unfairly promote their products and services above others. Spotify, for instance, cites an issue when Apple rejected an app...

Some application developers such as Spotify and Deezer are not happy that gatekeepers like Google and Apple have the power to enforce more strict rules to stifle competition. In response to a complaint filed to the EU, the European Commission is readying "legislative instruments" to tackle the...

The EU attacked Google and claimed they were violating antitrust laws because of the way they handle Adsense and their Shopping section within Google Search. Google just published a blog post about the issue and believe that improving the quality of a product is not anti-competitive.

Android is an Open Source operating system but the intricacies of the relationship between Android, Google, the Open Handset Alliance, and all of the partners that use Android is very complex. The European Union is slicing through that complexity and accusing Google of using their position to...

The EU has some ambitious plans to bring internet access to its residents over the next 9 years. The European Union wants to add free WiFi coverage to every town and city in Europe by 2020 and will also work to complete the deployment of 5G wireless networks by 2025.

The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As such, they will no longer be considered a part of the union. Despite the UK still technically being a part of Europe, Samsung may move its European headquarters outside of London and into a European country, likely to dodge logistical...

Roaming charges for calls and text messages stink. They can cost you a fortune. Unless you live in the EU where they've just lowered the maximum roaming costs to: €0.0114/minute (calls answered), €0.05/minute (calls made), €0.02/SMS, €0.05/MB data. What's even better? Beginning June 15th, 2017...