Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google was slapped with a record French fine of $170 million by the nation’s privacy watchdog, together with a 60 million-euro fine for Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook, over the way the companies manage cookies. CNIL, France’s data protection authority, issued the companies with a three-month ultimatum “to provide internet users located in France with a means ...

  Bloomberg Chile’s economic boom is proving more resilient than many had forecast, with activity expanding faster than expected in November for the eighth time in the past nine months. The Imacec index, a proxy for gross domestic product, rises 14.3% in November from the year earlier, above the 12.9% median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. For the month, ...

  Bloomberg UK automakers expect sales to rebound this year as the semiconductor shortage eases and demand for battery-powered vehicles grows. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) estimates new-car registrations in Britain will climb 19% to 1.96 million in 2022. The group said it will update that forecast — formulated shortly before the emergence of the highly transmissible ...