In France, the antitrust regulator has fined Google € 500 million, according to the regulator’s press service.
“The regulator has fined the company for non-compliance with several court rulings issued in April 2020,” the statement said.
Agence France-Presse writes that the fine was imposed for “the corporation did not properly negotiate with the publishers of the press on the use of related rights, on the remuneration of editors for the use of their content.”
“When the regulator makes instructions to companies, they must be scrupulously followed. In this case, this was not the case,” said the head of the French Antimonopoly Office Isabel de Silva.
Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrak denied his deputy Anna Yurchenko’s statement about toll roads in Ukraine. The day before, she said that six such roads are planned to be built in Ukraine and called the estimated cost of travel on them. “I will explain why this information is not true, and what is really happening,” Kubrak […]
The car manufacturer McLaren has introduced a new sports convertible McLaren 765LT Spider. The sports car is equipped with a 4-liter twin V-8 turbo engine with 755 horsepower and 590 Nm of torque. The car accelerates to 96 km / h in 2.7 seconds. The maximum speed reaches 280 km / h. It is reported […]
The profits of the American technology companies Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet increased significantly in the second quarter of 2021. This was reported by the BBC. It is noted that Apple’s profits have increased to 21.7 billion US dollars over the past three months amid an increase in purchases of 5G iPhone. Microsoft generated $ 16.5 […]
Another plant of the German carmaker BMW has been suspended. Next week, the company’s plant in Regensburg will be temporarily closed due to a shortage of semiconductor microchips, a BMW representative told the industry publication Automobilwoche. The plant will be shut down completely throughout the week. After that, a summer break will begin at the […]
AirlineRatings.com named Qatar Airways the airline of the year. As reported on Tuesday, July 27, the rating of Top Airlines in the World takes into account flight safety, on-board service, passenger comfort and flight routes, as well as the response of airlines to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Qatar Airways was recognized as the best airline […]
The Windscribe privacy tool, based in Canada, failed to encrypt corporate VPN servers recently confiscated by the Ukrainian authorities. The company provides services through the OpenVPN program. The Android app has over 5 million installs, indicating that the user base is probably much larger. “On June 24, 2021, our monitoring systems informed us that two […]
During the trading session on Monday, July 26, bitcoin accelerated growth and traded at $ 39,177 thousand (+ 10.58%). This is evidenced by data from the portal Coindesk. After that, the cryptocurrency rate slowed down and was at $ 38,939 thousand (+ 9.91%), after which it began to move further. Last night the rate of […]
Uber has announced an agreement with TPG Capital to acquire Transplace, which provides the widest portfolio of technology services and solutions in the logistics and transportation industry. The estimated amount of the deal is a considerable $ 2.25 billion, but about $ 750 million Uber will pay in the form of its own shares, and […]
The financial conglomerate BNP Paribas (headquartered in Paris) acquired indirectly 11.42% of the British JKX Oil&Gas, which owns the Poltava Petroleum Company. This is stated in the message of the JKX Oil&Gas reported on the London Stock Exchange. The owner of the package of the JKX at a rate of 11,42% became the British company […]
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KSG Agro agroindustrial company (Dnipropetrovsk region) initiates the restructuring of debt in the amount of $ 20 million. The company offers compensation to creditors in the amount of 1% of each of the outstanding principal. This was said in a statement of the company. In particular, the Board of Directors announced that the company has […]
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Shares of the American company Facebook rose 4.18% to $ 355.64 at the end of trading on Monday, June 28, and amounted to 1.008 trillion dollars in total value of the company. The sharp jump in quotations is due to a court decision that rejected the antitrust lawsuit of the US Federal Trade Commission. This […]
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Inflation in Ukraine in 2017 has an upward trend. Experts predict the order of 8%. With regard to the dollar – the assumption is not very comforting. All these things and more were discussed at the general meeting of the EBA Ukraine’s Business Climate-Global Outlook, which took place on January 26, 2017. In 2017 on […]
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In the first quarter of 2021, PrivatBank’s profit amounted to UAH 2.4 billion, which is 4.3 times less than in the same period last year (UAH 10.4 billion). This was reported on the bank’s website. “Changes in the world economy and Ukraine’s economy, first of all, the growth of yields on long-term US government treasury […]
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Over the past year the delegates of Ukrainian Audit Service in Kirovohrad region conducted 65 testing procedures and found deviations from the financial and budgetary order in the amount of more than 34 million UAH. As a result, it provided compensation of faults that provoked leakage of financial and material resources in the amount of […]
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The foreign investor will enter the capital of the combined bank. The owner and the Chairman of the Board of the Fidobank, and the shareholder of the Eurobank (both – Kiev), Alexander Adarich plans to consolidate its banking assets by combining the two banks, as well as attract foreign investors. “Based on the National Bank of […]
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Shares of Alibaba, up 35.7% since the beginning of the year but down almost 8% this week, rose 5.3% during trading on Friday after China’s largest public company announced second-quarter results financial year 2021, which ended in September. Alibaba’s quarterly report was preceded by news of the termination of the IPO of financial technology company […]
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The Chinese company POWERCHINA and the Ukrainian company WindFarm have signed a contract for the joint construction of a wind farm in the Donetsk region. This was reported by the press service of WindFarm. “The cost of the project is at least $ 1 billion, which makes it the largest wind energy project in Ukraine,” […]
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Visa signs partnership agreement with FTSE250 TBC Bank’s Space, the first Georgian neobank, to develop innovative banking solutions in Georgia and beyond in the growing digital payments landscape. TBILISI, 14 November 2019 – Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, and Space, the first fully digital bank in Georgia, today announced they have signed a […]
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The “Auchan” network won a lawsuit against the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine in the case of cartel retailers. In April 2015 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine made a decision on the most massive and scandalous case in the food retail market – the cartel of 14 retailers, which, according to the AMC, has led to […]
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Electric car maker Tesla has agreed with brokerage companies to sell its shares for a total of $ 5 billion. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing documents submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The shares will be sold at the market price. This is the third sale of Tesla shares in 2020. […]
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Health Minister Maxim Stepanov and British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons discussed the possible production of a coronavirus vaccine at Ukrainian facilities. The Ministry of Health is in constant contact with AstraZeneca. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Health on Facebook. Vaccine production may be launched in the near future. “We […]
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The Antimonopoly Committee drew the line under the proceedings between the Ukrainian “daughter” of the German firm Rehau and its namesake – the Kyiv production company Rehau. Both work in the window market under the Rehau brand. By the decision of the AMCU the Rehau production company is obliged within a month to abandon from […]
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The National Bank of Ukraine plans to sell PrivatBank. Its privatization, the NBU believes, may be of interest to the most prestigious international investors, as the Ukrainian banking sector has potential. The head of the NBU Kirill Shevchenko in an interview with GlobalCapital stated this. “Our banking sector has significant potential for international investors. We […]
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SpaceX will launch a heavy Falcon 9 launch vehicle into orbit with another batch of 60 Starlink mini-satellites. Spaceflight Now reports on Sunday, March 7. The satellites will launch from the 40th launch complex of the Kennedy Space Center (Florida) on March 9 at 21:55 EST. The launch will be the 21st launch of a […]
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