France angry over tech giant taxing
Stop talking and make them pay up
The French government is getting its baguettes in a knot over delays in getting the US tech giants to start paying tax.
France and Germany working out how to tax big tech
France suggests a sunset clause
The European Union is working out a way to tax big tech and thinks that an agreement could still be found by the end of the year.
French try and give robots a pizza the action
Escargot of taste just got up and went
The French claim to have replaced all pizza makers with a robot, although the example they produced is hardly a real pizza.
Xiaomi to open retail store in Vienna
Coming to Italy and France in May
Xiaomi is definitely entering a few more European markets. Xiaomi confirmed that it will start officially offering its devices in Italy and France and it is about to open up a retail store in Vienna too.
Macron wants France to win AI war
No surrendering this time
French President Emmanuel Macron touts artificial intelligence as the next technological frontier France cannot afford to miss, and will launch a major “offensive” this week.
France drags Apple and Google to court
Evil contract terms
France will take Google and Apple to court over contractual terms imposed by the tech giants on startups and developers.
UK and France ally over AI
Brexit backdoor remaining
While the UK government is frantically trying to show that it is really about Brexit, it is apparently doing deals with the French on artificial intelligence, data, cybersecurity, digital government and tech skills.
French want new words for “smartphone”
Something a little more French
The French always have a problem when it comes to English words entering their language and have been desperately coming up with something to replace those nasty roast-beef eating words which come from the world of tech.
Apple investigated for “planned obsolescence”
French do not like the idea of battery throttling
Officer of the lure, Inspector Clouseau, is taking on his biggest case to bring down the fruity cargo cult Apple.
France revolts against Amazon
Give us 10 million euros to surrender
The French government has filed a complaint with the Paris Commerce Court against e-commerce company Amazon for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers, newspaper Le Parisien said.