Spanish lobby that made Goggle News to shut down now asks for EU intervention
In less than 24 hours, which is quite funny. AEDE, which is the organisation that lobbied to create the "Google Tax" in Spain that made them shut down Google News, is now asking Spain and EU authorities intervention to avoid it. In their words "they are willing to negotiate with Google" [1] The announcement of shutting down Google News has been previously discussed in HN, just this morning [2] with a good summary in English from the top comment [3] [1] http://www.abc.es/medios/20141211/abci-aede-editores-google-news-201412112017.html (sorry, in Spanish) Google-translated here: https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.es%2Fmedios%2F20141211%2Fabci-aede-editores-google-news-201412112017.html&edit-text=&act=url [2] https://news.y
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In less than 24 hours, which is quite funny. AEDE, which is the organisation that lobbied to create the "Google Tax" in Spain that made them shut down Google News, is now asking Spain and EU authorities intervention to avoid it. In their words "they are willing to
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jaimebuelta
- Ended
- 2014
- Source
- hackernews