Google announced Wednesday the reopening of its news service in Spain next year after the country amended a law that imposed fees on aggregators such as the US tech giant for using publishers’ content.
Google has told customers that it will raise the rates for advertisements on its French and Spanish platforms by two percent from May to help offset the impact of a digital tax on profits.
Spain's socialist government on Friday approved a new tax on big internet companies as part of its 2019 budget, hoping to raise up to €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) next year.
Fame came at a price for a Spanish boy who mistakenly racked up €100,000 ($112,000) in advertising fees with Google as he attempted to make his brass band famous online.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai hit back Sunday at accusations that the global internet giant failed to pay enough taxes in Europe, and warned of the potential fallout from Britain leaving the EU.
Google's offices in Madrid were being searched in a tax probe Thursday, an internal source said, just over a month after police raided the Internet giant in Paris in a similar investigation.
Ever wondered just what questions Spaniards most want answering? In an election year and with Catalonia independence crisis looming, is the nation gripped by burning political issues? The results might surprise you.
Spain is the European country that has seen the fourth largest number of requests to remove search engine results as 33,000 Spaniards exercise their "right to be forgotten".
Ciudadanos has proposed that Spain adopt a Swedish-style paternity leave policy that would allow give fathers to equally share time off with mothers after a new born baby.
The Local chats with Uptodown creator Luis Hernández about how a company started by two university friends became Google Play's biggest worldwide competitor.
Google Street View thought it would be a good idea to drive one of their state of the art cars smack bang into the middle of Spain's La Tomatina festival to record the tomato pelting battle for all the world to see.
Google Streetview has launched a new project which allows people to explore "the world's most dangerous footpath" in southern Spain from the comfort of home.
How to vote, how to make bracelets and how to be 'swag': a new Google list reveals what advice Spaniards have been searching for online in 2014 and provides a fascinating insight into the country’s obsessions over the last 12 months.
Spain's main web-surfers' association warned Friday that national media will lose huge internet traffic when Google shuts its Google News operation next week in protest at being made to pay for content, while newspapers called for talks to prevent the closure.
The tech giant has been hit with thousands of Spanish demands to be deleted from search results after losing a landmark 'right to be forgotten' EU legal battle and introducing a 'removal request' service.
The US tech giant will set up a new Google Campus in the Spanish capital in 2015 in a bid to help budding entrepreneurs launch their very own tech start-ups.
Online bulletin-board service Pinterest on Wednesday announced it was buying out Spanish start-up Icebergs, specializing in helping creative people collaborate on projects.
Google must delete sensitive information about people from its search results if asked to do so, the European Union announced on Tuesday, a ruling that comes after Spain's data protection agency took on the tech giant over privacy.
Cyber activists hacked the website of a major Spanish media industry body on Monday after the group came out in favour of a new draft law which would see websites like Google having to pay media outlets to post their content.
Google's search engines have a habit of trying to finish your sentences, but what do their predictive algorithms have to say about Spain and the Spanish? We've chosen some of our favourites.
The world's biggest search engine has paid tribute to contemporary art genius Antoni Tàpies by using one of his paintings on its homepage on the 90th anniversary of his birth.
A Spanish court on Friday ordered the immediate release of a man who raped and killed three children, cutting his prison time by 10 years in line with a European human rights ruling.
