Google Is Spending Half a Billion Dollars To Curry Europe's Favor (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @03:20AM from the improving-relationship dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google has ratchet up its investment in European goodwill, aiming to spend about $450 million from 2015 to 2017 as EU regulators narrow their gaze on the search giant, according to a report by the New York Times. The company is pouring money into wide-ranging sponsorships, like an exhibition at a Belgian museum incorporating virtual reality, a fund to help European news publishers amp up their web savvy, a digital training course for Irish teachers, and YouTube-backed concerts, according to the report.

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Charity and community involvement are evil! by Medievalist · 2016-07-19 03:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Of course Google should never give their own money to filthy liberal Europeans; those savages probably aren't even circumcised!
Saints Reagan and Rand are rolling in their blessed graves.
MONEY IS ONLY FOR HURTING PEOPLE! SAVE THE MONIES!
President Trump will fix all this, you betcha.
Re: So... rather than not doing what pisses them o by PPH · 2016-07-19 04:11 · Score: 4, Funny

European roads have bends in them.
It's spelled 'Benz'.

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