France

France is creating – and speeding up the rollout of – a nationwide program using facial recognition to create legal digital identities for its citizens. The…

PARIS: Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros (US$1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago in a deal…

PARIS: France on Thursday became the first major economy to impose a tax on digital giants, with parliament passing the legislation in defiance of a probe…

After Germany in January 2018, it is France’s turn to crack down on the growing number of hate speeches on the Internet. The National Assembly approved on…

Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe. Today, the company announced that it would be…

PARIS: France is set to unveil legislation on Wednesday (Mar 6) to increase taxes on global Internet giants such as Google and Facebook, putting it among a…

It was pretty hectic security week, between the Sharpshooter malware attack, a massive Patch Tuesday, and yet another Facebook privacy fail.Here’s what…

Around 40 partners of venture capital firms, as well as limited partners, came to Paris to talk about tech in France, from Andreessen Horowitz to Greylock…

UK startup accelerator Public is partnering with Accenture in a bid to ramp up its aim to bring new technologies to market which can transform public…

As the geopolitical picture continues to churn with uncertainty, France is making a strong and surprising bid to assume a central leadership role in…