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,...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's views on some tariff-related issues may be based on misunderstanding or misinformation, as a pause on a 24% reciprocal tariff on imports from Japan expires next week.   We hear President Trump say no U.S. cars are running in Japan and that we are not importing (U.S.)...

IREN Limited ( IREN ) shares are trading higher. The company on Thursday announced that it expanded its AI cloud through the purchase of thousands of Nvidia Corp ( NVDA ) Blackwell GPUs. What Happened: IREN ( IREN ) said that it bought 2,400 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, consisting of 1,300 B200 GPUs and 1,100 B300 GPUs, for approximately $130 million....

WASHINGTON/HANOI (Reuters) -The United States will place a lower-than-promised 20% tariff on many Vietnamese exports, Donald Trump said on Wednesday, cooling tensions with its tenth-biggest trading partner days before the U.S. president could raise levies on most imports. Vietnamese goods would face a 20% tariff and trans-shipments from third countries through Vietnam will face a 40% levy, he said. Vietnam...