The U.S. tech company has said it will appeal the penalty, which is nearly double the previous record of 2.4 billion euros – which Google was ordered to pay last year after its online shopping search service was deemed to be unfair to competitors.

The U.S. tech company has said it will appeal the penalty, which is nearly double the previous record of 2.4 billion euros – which Google was ordered to pay last year after its online shopping search service was deemed to be unfair to competitors.
Alphabet self-driving unit Waymo will need “a large number” of cars to expand its robo-taxi service to Europe, its chief executive told a newspaper, Reuters reported.
In recent months, the UAE has carved out its place on the global e-commerce map – and quite deliberately so. In October 2017, for example, the Dubai Airport Free Zone launched Dubai CommerCity.
Last week, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the European Parliament in Brussels to answer a few questions about the recent Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
The European Union is targeting $24.4 billion of investment in artificial intelligence by 2020.
With the deadline fast approaching, many GCC organisations are yet to begin the processes, risk lagging behind and facing penalties.
Large companies with significant digital revenues in the European Union such as Google and Facebook could face a three percent tax on their turnover under a draft proposal by the European Commission seen by Reuters.
Germany are reportedly investigating a security breach into the country’s government computer network.
The US chipmaker Qualcomm was hit with a EUR 997 million ($1.2 billion) fine by European Union antitrust regulators for paying Apple to use only its chips, blocking out rivals such as Intel.
Rashmi Knowles, field CTO, EMEA, RSA, discusses how the new EU General Data Protection Regulation will impact Middle East firms and how they can prepare for it.
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