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Amazon fined 1.1 billion euros for unfair competition

As it leaves its European rivals eating dust, Amazon has found a hiccough in Italy: the country’s competitions watchdog has slapped the American retail giant with a 1.13b billion euro (965m pounds) fine for harming rival e-commerce logistics services and promoting its own. The regulator said Amazon negatively impacted rivals by only giving...

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Google fined 220m euros for advertising abuse in France

Google has been fined 220 million euros (189m pounds) by France’s Autorité de la concurrence, the country’s competition authority, for abusing its advertising power. Other European countries could soon follow suit under strict European advertising rules. The French competition watchdog said Google has been promoting its own digital advertising...