Here you will find all the articles with the tag: France.
A fire has broken out at the French hosting company OVHcloud. Of the four data centres that the company has in Strasbourg, one burned down completely, one was heavily damaged, and two remained intact. Octave Klaba, the founder of OVHcloud, shares details about the fire on Twitter. There he says ... Read more
2 years ago
France is pushing to expand regulations that will grant European Union member states, the capabilities to punish big tech companies for breaking the law. The changes proposed by France, concern the Digital Services Act, a set of proposed laws that are designed to curb anticompetitive behavior by th... Read more
2 years ago
Google has been fined €1.1 million over misleading star ratings for hotels in France. The company has agreed to pay the fine after it had been applying its own algorithm-driven system of ratings for hotels applied on its search engine and Google Maps. However, back in 2019, several complaints ... Read more
2 years ago
France has resumed its previously halted taxes on the revenue of tech giants. The country had previously stopped this tax following a deal with the United States. It is a 3 percent tax. The tax on tech giants was stopped after a deal with the United States. In the deal, the country promised that... Read more
2 years ago
Amazon and Apple have not signed up to the new French initiative to get global tech giants to comply with principles that include the fair payment of taxes while publicly acknowledging that fact. Government officials confirmed this refusal on Monday. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has be... Read more
2 years ago
France is not backing down on implementing a new digital tax, which has stirred controversy. France sent out notices to big tech companies and others covered by the tax. The companies were informed that they would have to pay taxes if they want to continue doing business in France. The tax is st... Read more
2 years ago
France and the Netherlands yesterday called for a European Union authority to step in and introduce stricter regulations for large tech companies like Facebook and Google. The two companies, especially, are so dominant that they have effectively become the internet's default gatekeeper. France a... Read more
2 years ago
Cybersecurity agencies from Japan, France, and New Zealand have issued security alerts in recent publications. In the publications, they warn about a massive spike in Emotet malware attack. The Emotet activity involves email spam campaigns that are a product of the Emotet infrastructure. They ha... Read more
3 years ago
France will tax large digital companies this year. Regardless of any progress made towards an international agreement, the French Finance Minister states. Nearly 140 countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are negotiating a significant revision of the tax r... Read more
3 years ago
The French police have taken over and neutralised a large botnet for cryptographic currency mining. The botnet managed nearly a million infected computers. It was the Retadup malware, writes Techcrunch. This malware infects computers and then uses processor power to minimize cryptographic currency. ... Read more
4 years ago
