The
authority also said a 500-million euro fine it had imposed on
Google last year was now definitive, as the U.S. online giant
had dropped an appeal against it. Google paid the fine last
year.
The decisions bring to an end the authority's investigation
against Google, which has accepted to hold talks with news
agencies and other publishers to pay for the use of their news.
The ruling comes amid increasing international pressure on
online platforms such as Google and Facebook to share more
revenue with news outlets.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by
Sudip Kar-Gupta and Silvia Aloisi)
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