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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Re:So... rather than not doing what pisses them of by jandersen · 2016-07-19 03:28 · Score: 3, Insightful

They spend 500 million bribing people to like them?

One assumes they must be worried about be hit much harder, were they to be made to pay taxes in proportion to their earnings.