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  • France calls for EU to regulate Web giants to counter dominance [wages war against achievement]

    09/19/2013 8:21:38 PM PDT · by grundle · 6 replies
    Reuters ^ | Leila Abboud | September 19, 2013
    PARIS (Reuters) - France is pushing for the European Union to regulate global internet companies like Google Inc (GOOG.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) more aggressively, to counter their growing dominance over online commerce and services. In an interview published by Liberation newspaper on Thursday, France's minister for the digital economy, Fleur Pellerin, said Europe needed new regulatory powers to intervene much earlier, to level the playing field in the internet economy and allow the emergence of alternatives in Europe to U.S. Web giants. She said Europe needed to be able to act quickly, as soon as problems...