Google’s managing director for Australia and New Zealand told Australian lawmakers that it might pull its search engine from the country if they go through with a law that forces it to pay local news organizations for the headlines and snippets in search results, Bloomberg reported. The comment is an escalation of a fight between U.S. tech giants and Australia over the proposed law, which also...
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