Six prominent French newspapers are joining forces to create an online news site in competition with Google News. France’s National Daily Press Union announced the plan yesterday and said the virtual newsstand will be launched in September. Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and L’Equipe are planning to develop and finance the [...]
French Newspapers Take on Google News
July 25th, 2010Google Wins in France
March 23rd, 2010France Leads The EU in Objecting to Google The AdWords trademark issue went before the highest authorities in France, but this time Search Engine Google came out on the top of the heap. According to Search Engine Land: European luxury goods maker LVMH (Luis Vuitton) sued Google in France over its AdWords policy allowing third [...]
UK Warns Against IE Use
January 26th, 2010The UK is warning people about yet another vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the wake of the Chinese GoogleHack which was traced to a crack in IE security: “All web browsers are at ongoing risk to vulnerabilities and as such Get Safe Online’s recommended advice is always to use the most up-to-date version to [...]
Google Fined Heavily in France
January 3rd, 2010According to BBC News: A Paris court has found Google guilty of copyright infringement in a ruling which could have ramifications for its plans to digitise the world’s books. The French publisher La Martiniere, one of several to take Google to court for digitising books without permission, won their case in French courts and Google [...]