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,...

11:06 AM EDT, 06/12/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Perpetua Resources ( PPTA ) , down 19% on last look, on Thursday said it upsized its bought-deal financing and will now issue 24.6-million shares at US$13.20 each, for total proceeds of US$325 million, up from its prior US$300-million target. In connection with the offering, Paulson & Co. will purchase US$100 million of...

By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Temasek has joined a consortium backed by Microsoft ( MSFT ), BlackRock ( BLK ) and tech investment company MGX to invest and expand artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to BlackRock's ( BLK ) investor day presentation slides on Thursday. The Singapore state investment company has joined AI Infrastructure Partnership, a group that also includes BlackRock's...

BioNTech SE ( BNTX ) on Thursday agreed to acquire CureVac N.V. ( CVAC ) in an all-stock transaction. According to the agreement, shareholders can exchange CureVac ( CVAC ) shares for around $5.46 in BioNTech ADSs. This equates, roughly, to an equity value of $1.25 billion. The consideration is subject to a collar mechanism. If the 10-day volume weighted average...