French regulator says most e-commerce platform products it tested breach EU rulesFrance's consumer watchdog found a staggering 75% of products from online platforms failed EU safety rules. Many items were found to be dan...
29 Apr, 2026, 05.58 PM IST
French antitrust watchdog dismisses complaint filed against MicrosoftThe Autorite de la Concurrence, as the watchdog is known, said Qwant failed to bring elements sufficiently convincing to sustain its claims...
27 Nov, 2025, 05.34 PM IST
Qwant asks French watchdog to take interim action against MicrosoftQwant, which has historically relied on Microsoft's Bing platform, wants the regulator to take interim action against the US tech giant whi...
03 Jun, 2025, 11.07 PM IST
Nvidia set to face French antitrust chargesThe French so-called statement of objections or charge sheet would follow dawn raids in the graphics cards sector in September last year wh...
01 Jul, 2024, 08.58 PM IST
French competition watchdog hits Google with 250 million euro fineGoogle has pledged not to contest the facts as part of settlement proceedings, the watchdog said, adding the company also proposed a series...
20 Mar, 2024, 01.07 PM IST
No formal investigation into AI chips, EU antitrust regulators sayBloomberg News last week said the EU antitrust watchdog was informally collecting views on potentially abusive practices in the market for ...
02 Oct, 2023, 03.57 PM IST
Apple to appeal the French anti-trust fine despite it being trimmed down"The decision relates to practices from more than a decade ago that even the FCA recognized are no longer in use," the company said
06 Oct, 2022, 09.47 PM IST
A French court cuts antitrust fine against Apple to 372 million euros from 1.1 billion - sourceThe fine, that was initially set at 1.1 billion euros, dates back to 2020
06 Oct, 2022, 08.30 PM IST
Google drops appeal against 500 million euro fine by French regulatorFrance hit Google with a fine of 500 million euros in July last year euros after finding breaches in how it negotiated with publishers to r...
21 Jun, 2022, 07.15 PM IST
Facebook owner Meta makes antitrust commitments over online advertisingMeta has committed to giving access over a five-year period to advertising inventories and campaign data to so-called advertising technolog...
16 Jun, 2022, 04.56 PM IST
Google to change global ad practices after French watchdog imposes fineThe settlement which also saw Google fined $268 million, is the first time the U.S. tech giant has agreed to make changes to its huge adver...
07 Jun, 2021, 08.33 PM IST
French court: Google must open payment talks with publishersFrench regulators had argued that Google must sit down for talks under a “neighbouring rights” law adopted after the European Union overhau...
09 Oct, 2020, 12.07 AM IST
French antitrust regulator fines Apple $1.2 blnThe fine, the biggest ever levied by the French antitrust body, comes at a time of heightened scrutiny on U.S. tech giants by European regu...
16 Mar, 2020, 05.14 PM IST
CCI clears Schneider Electric-Luminous Power dealCompetition Commission of India (CCI), which keeps a tab on unfair business ways, has approved the deal to acquire the remaining stake, as ...
27 Jan, 2017, 03.05 PM IST
Merger with Lafarge in India on track: HolcimFrench cement maker Lafarge has four manufacturing plants at Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Jharkhand in India.
24 Dec, 2014, 05.53 PM IST
- AXA Asia Pacific signals NAB takeover deadline
Financial services firm AXA Asia Pacific on Tuesday said its support for a 13.29 billion dollar (US $11.59) takeover by National Australia ...
18 May, 2010, 10.18 AM IST
- EU in contact with banks about possible rival to Visa, MasterCard
The European Commission said Wednesday that contacts had been held with banks on setting up a payments card network that could rival Visa a...
16 Apr, 2008, 08.28 PM IST