A Parisian commercial court has upheld a lower court’s ruling against Google France, ordering the company to pay a fine of €500,000 for giving away its maps services. The plaintiff, Bottin Cartographes, claims that Google leveraged the market share of its Maps platform — and the fact that it’s free — to undercut and stifle competition attempting to sell their topographical wares…

There is something to be said about the serendipity of shopping in a brick and mortar stores, especially when you’re buying fashion. The dilemma with clothing is that you don’t know what you’ll like until you get to the store and are presented with an array of options, and that perfect thing you never though you’d like…

Google doesn’t want you to believe everything Microsoft is writing about its privacy policies — especially not in the ads for alternative Microsoft products set to appear in major newspapers…

Facebook’s IPO is going to create a thousand millionaires. The top executives at Facebook, and its investors, are getting an unbelievable payout. We’ve heard reports of a valuation ranging between $75 billion and $100 billion…

Need to sign a contract, like, now? There’s an app for that. Several actually, but the folks who create EasySignMobile have gone and made their service a bit more accessible to the unwashed masses with an updated version that supports Facebook authentication…

Facebook said its users are increasingly using mobile devices, and that this is risky because the social network still hasn’t figured out how it can make money from mobile ads. A majority of Facebook users still access the site on their personal computers, where Facebook makes a lot of money from ads served on its web pages…

Photo organization service (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Everpix just launched its first iPhone application. The app does two key things: it offers you a way to access your entire photo collection from your phone, plus it automatically uploads all your iPhone photos to the Everpix cloud…

Mae Karwowski runs social media strategy and oversees community management at Gilt City, a subsidiary of the Gilt Groupe. She also consults for several startups. Social networks are flooded with potential customers…

Facebook employees will soon be able to collect some major dough now that the company’s plans to go public are finally official. So how are some 1000+ Facebook millionaires going to spend the cash? Nicholas Carlson talked to some of the company’s employees and has the scoop…

We were told at CES last month to expect Vizio’s ultrawidescreen LCDs would hit the market sooner rather than later, now we know how it will fit into our budgets, even if we’re not sure how the aspect ratio will fit in our living rooms…

Electronic Arts issued new data about the launch of the six-week-old massively multiplayer online game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. As previously noted, EA said that it has sold more than 2 million copies since Dec…

Dan Rowinski explores the ramifications of fragmentation in Android app development. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap. Sometimes it’s difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories…