(Reuters) -Verizon Communications said Friday it is ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs after the Trump administration opened a probe and as the U.S. telecom carrier seeks approval to purchase Frontier Communications. Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr in February criticized Verizon for its promotion ofDEI programs and said it could be a factor in the Frontier deal. Verizon said...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

07:51 AM EDT, 05/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY ) said Friday it received European Commission approval for the perioperative regimen of neoadjuvant Opdivo and chemotherapy followed by surgery and adjuvant Opdivo to treat resectable non-small cell lung cancer. The approval covers treatment of cancer at high risk of recurrence in adult patients whose tumors have PD-L1 expression...

09:10 AM EDT, 05/16/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Microsoft's ( MSFT ) and OpenAI's response in the seventh, eighth, and ninth paragraphs.) Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed (MSFT) OpenAI's updated May 5 decision that it would continue to be overseen and controlled by its nonprofit may be a step in the right direction but it must offer more details about...