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France to take Google and Apple to Court

March 16, 2018By Ruth Landsman

Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, announced on Wednesday that France it will take Google and Apple to court over what it considered “abusive” contractual terms imposed by the tech companies.

France will be seeking fines of 2 million euros from Apple and Google. Maire has been made aware that the tech companies unilaterally imposed prices and contract changes on developers and startups, selling software on Google Play and Apple’s App Store.

Read more here.

Brussels is currently examining measures to improve the taxation of overseas tech giants’ online businesses in European markets.

Tim Cowen is currently representing a range of companies in the EU Commission’s on-going investigations of Google’s abuse of dominance in online search and bundling of applications with the Android operating system.

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