Google News Shutting Down In Spain

By | December 11, 2014

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Global No. 1 search firm Google (GOOGL) will close its Google News operation in Spain on Tuesday in response to a new law that starts in January that would boost the search firm’s costs. The legislation would require Google to pay publishers if its news service carried portions of their stories, Richard Gingras, the head of Google News, said in a blog post Thursday. “This new legislation requires every Spanish publication to charge services like Scalper1 News

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