Turkey Claims Google Owes Them $47 Million In Back Taxes
Nov 3, 2009 at 10:30am ET by Barry Schwartz
TechCrunch reports Turkey is claiming Google owes them 71 million Turkish Lira or 47 million US dollars in back taxes.
In fact, the Turkish government is fining Google for the money. Google claims all the funds are through their Ireland branch and Google does not owe Turkey any taxes. Google technically has a company in Turkey named Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti. but the company is technically set up as a 'liaison' branch. If set up properly, TechCrunch reports Google would owe little to no taxes to the Turkish government.
Two years ago, Norway complained that Google was [...]
Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Outside US
Google Releases Voice Search In China For Nokia S60s
Nov 2, 2009 at 1:10pm ET by Greg Sterling
Google announced that it had released voice search for Mandarin Chinese for Nokia S60 phones. This is potentially huge -- if Google gets it right -- because of the massive population in China. It could also drive more search usage and frequency. Google trails Baidu on the PC but mobile represents an opportunity for Google to grow share in that largest of all internet markets.
Google now says it understands a range of English accents, and Mandarin although it doesn't yet get all accents in Mandarin. In addition, the capability will be coming soon to the Android and iPhone platforms in China. [...]
Filed in: Google: Mobile, Google: Outside US, Google: Voice Search
Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site
Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04pm ET by Matt McGee
Oh, the irony: The People's Daily, the main newspaper of China's Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware warning to search result listings for the newspaper's book section.
The paper says the malware warning appeared after it ran an article about a Chinese group that has suggested Google's book search settlement might violate the rights of Chinese authors. The paper says the malware warning appeared for three days, and claimed that its book section was "maliciously blocked by Google."
Google called the claims "absolutely incorrect" and pointed out that i [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Outside US, Legal: Censorship
Google Execs Looking At Potential Jail Time If Convicted In Italian Privacy Case
Oct 1, 2009 at 10:07am ET by Greg Sterling
Right now there's a court case in Italy that involves Google executives, who are being tried for violating Italian privacy laws. The case illustrates international conflicts of law issues and challenges for companies doing business (via the internet) in multiple nations with differing cultures and corresponding legal rules. In a less serious way Google has encountered this type of thing before with its Street View product on Maps in trying to comply with different privacy rules in the US, Canada and Europe. But this is the first time (to my knowledge) that jail time is at stake.
What happen [...]
Filed in: Google: Legal, Google: Outside US
EU Court Says Google Can Sell Trademarked Keywords In AdWords
Sep 22, 2009 at 9:56am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Can Sell Trademarked Keywords, EU Adviser Says from Bloomberg News reports the EU's highest court has ruled Google can sell trademarked keywords in search ads. As we reported back in June 2008, Louis Vuitton sued Google over trademark issues with search ads and Google then appealed to this court. Google has won that appeal and has set the law on this matter across the whole European Union.
Advocate General Luis Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro said in a non-binding opinion to the European Court of Justice today in Luxembourg:
It is important not to allow the legitimate purpose of p [...]
Filed in: Google: AdWords, Google: Legal, Google: Outside US, Legal: Trademarks
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